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Time Capsule...what about us Airdisk users?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Hi All, Keynote fever has passed and we all lived to see another day...sometimes one can never tell with the rabidness of the Mac faithful. Overall, the keynote was just another keynote - some cool stuff, some lame stuff. But one announcement really got my goat. Time Capsule. First a history lesson, before Leopard was released Apple had blazoned all over their Airport Extreme/Time Machine product pages that Airdisk would work with Time Machine. I, like many others, thought this was a great deal. I purchased an Airport Extreme (and a 500 GB external drive) in preparation of the great Time Machine. I wanted a gigabit hub and wireless N router and was stoked to get a NAS disk add-on to boot. Well, a week or two before Leopard shipped they pulled any mention of Airdisk working with Time Machine. Needless to say, I was bummed. To add insult to injury, I've never gotten Airdisk to work correctly. After 12-24 hours it simply will stop accepting logins. Whenever I try and login, it will say the login is incorrect. The only solution is to reboot the router. After a reboot, it will work correctly for another 12-24 hours and then it will stop working again. This issue has been documented all over Apple's forums and I've even logged a bug on it (which is currently open). So you can start to see the rub here. First, Apple states Airdisk will work with Time Machine. Then they say, 'oops, nevermind.' Then Airdisk doesn't work correctly at all with no fix in sight. But to top it off, they announce a brand new product that is supposed to do what Airdisk was promised to do last spring (or later). All this leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I can only hope that when Time Capsule actually ships, they release a patch to fix all the Airdisk woes as well. cheers, will comments posted at 11:34 AM Comments:Post a Comment |
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