Apple Announces Time Capsule

As was mentioned earlier, MacBook Air contains no optical drive. To back up your files, then, instead of burnings DVDs, Apple presents the Time Capsule. No, the Time Capsule isn't just a glorified external HDD. The Time Capsule runs with any Mac system running on Leopard. It has the ability to back up the files of ALL your Mac computers within one home, automatically, every hour of the day. Even if you had deleted files, the Time Capsule would be able to retrieve, them, even giving your Macs the functionality to restore software when needed. The Time Capsule works with the Time Machine which is included in the Mac Leopard operating system update. Other than being a back-up device, the Time Capsule could also serve as a WiFi base station equipped with 802.11n technology. It comes with built-in power supply. The Time Capsule comes in two variants -- the 500GB version which will sell for US$299 and the 1TB version which will sell for US$499.

Additional Time Capsule features include: -- dual-band antennas for 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequencies; -- three Gigabit LAN ports; -- one Gigabit Ethernet WAN port; -- one USB 2.0 port; -- Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA-2), 128-bit WEP encryption; and -- a built-in NAT firewall supporting NAT-PMP for features like Back to My Mac.