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Apple router1/17/2024 ![]() Dell Canada, however, had an external 1.5 GB drive on sale for C$150 (about US$130), which seemed like a nice price for quite a bit more storage space. (See my article Time Machine Can Now Backup to a Shared Hard Drive.)īut backing up two Macs to that 500 GB drive, I’d started to run low on drive space. I have an AirPort Extreme until recently, I’d been connecting a generic 500 GB external USB drive to my iMac and using it to back up both the iMac and my MacBook using OS X 10.5’s Time Machine backup software. A Time Capsule with a 500 GB drive boosts the price to $299 the 1 TB model jumps to $499. And Time Capsule is a relatively expensive way to add storage, even when added to the price of Apple’s high-end AirPort Extreme.Īpple’s US online store lists the AirPort Extreme base station (with no built-in storage) for $179. ![]() ![]() However, many users already have either a wireless base station (also referred to as a wireless router) or an external hard drive – or both. Apple’s Time Capsule, building the equivalents of an AirPort Extreme router and either a 500 GB or 1 TB hard drive into a single unit, is a space-saving and easy-to-use way for users to combine a wireless base station and storage accessible over a home or small business network – and even across the Internet. ![]()
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