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Apple Time Capsule 500GB (Dual-band) review

Apple's brilliant wireless backup system evolves. Very slightly…

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-05-08May 8th 2009

Price at launch £229.00
Product Type Network Hard Drive
Wi-Fi Yes
Ethernet Technology Gigabit Ethernet
Product Family Time Capsule
Brand Name Apple
Form Factor External
Storage Capacity 500 GB
Host Interface USB 2.0
Wi-Fi Standard IEEE 802.11g
Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports 4
Network (RJ-45) Yes
Height 35.6 mm
Width 198.0 mm
Depth 198.0 mm
Manufacturer Apple, Inc
Product Name Time Capsule Network Hard Drive
Product Line Time Capsule
Manufacturer Part Number MB764LL/A
Manufacturer Website Address www.apple.com/uk
Marketing Information

Back up a lifetime's worth of memories with the all-new Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It's also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support.

Protocols DHCP, DNS, IPv6, NAT, AppleTalk, Bonjour, IPSec, L2TP, PPPoE, PPTP, SNMP

Product Summary

Time Capsule 500GB (Dual-band)

Time Capsule

Price at launch

£229.00

For

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Very easy to use

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n & g networks run at full speed

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USB disk and printer sharing

Against

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Stupidly expensive

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No built-in modem

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Slow initial backup

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