Time Capsule Initial Verdict: Smooth Sailing, No Surprises

From Gizmodo

We've been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy. The star of the show is really the new AirPort Utility software, which now comes with some neat tricks for the network-phobic. Most of all, we're learning the ins and outs of adding external drives, using networked printers, and setting up that potentially nasty initial data dump.

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From Macworld
Apple suggests that Time Capsule—its newly-shipping backup device—extends the simplicity of its Time Machine backup component in Leopard. Plug it in, use an assistant to walk you through configuration, connect to the device or connect it to an existing network, and select its internal hard drive as the Time Machine destination for your networked Macs.

In my first pass with the backup appliance, I found that Time Capsule largely lives up to this expectation of simplicity, with a few glitches. I had to restart the unit more times than I like, fix a few configuration errors in its "automatic" configuration, and deal with a glitch in getting Time Machine to select the right drive.

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