Time Capsule

Apple announces the Time Capsule today at Macworld 2008.

I returned an Airport Extreme 2 months ago because it kept dropping my Macbook after waking from sleep w/o power plugged in. It was a very frustrating experience, so I went back to the DI-524, although it also drops my Macbook whenever I turned on my Wii. But I only have to turn Airport off and on and it works again. The Airport Extreme worked for 30 seconds, then I turned it off/on, worked for another 30 seconds, turned off/on,… The firmware is a piece of junk.

Now if Time Capsule does not have the same problem with Airport Extreme, I will probably get one to replace my crappy NAT and get a 500GB HD for Time Machine.

Airport Extreme $180
500GB HD ~$100

So Time Capsule is priced much more reasonable than the Macbook Air, but only if it actually works and doesn’t drop connections.