Apple Time Capsule: Wireless back-up.

Posted by Chris Smith on Tue 15 Jan 2008

Great Scott! Apple's new back-up facility for OSX is like a wireless DeLorian!

Just three months after Leopard pounced with its butt-whooping back-up system, Time Machine, Jobs' first announcement proved a beautiful complement for notebook users.

Where we're going we won't need wires.

The Time Capsule, available from February, combines an Airport Extreme base station with a 500GB or (insert gasp here!) a 1TB hard drive to wirelessly back up your files every hour. It'll also do the job for all the other Macs in your gaff - even non-laptops.

Time Machine, perhaps the most awesome aspect of the record-selling Leopard OS (They sold 5 million copies in 90 days) was less functional for on-the move Mac-users due to the continued need for an external storage device. But not anymore. Yay!

Like the sound of that? Well there's more. Jobs described the prices as "aggressive". We say they're pretty doggone friendly. The 500GB model will cost $299 and the 1000GB model at $400, which translates into £199 and £329 this side of the pond.

We had a heavy-handed grope of the Time Capsule base station, and although pretty weighty, the design looks like it could a typically-Apple, impeccable addition to your living room or, indeed, hidden away in a drawer somewhere.