Updated Airport Extreme Base Station at Macworld?
Faithful UK Macenstein reader Steven Haskayne alerts us that the Airport Extreme base station is marked “no longer available” on the UK Apple store under the “ready to ship” date. “With Macworld looming do you think that this could be a sign?” asks Stephen. “Surely if it was out of stock it would just say that?“.
Hmm Steven. We agree the wording does seem a little “final”. However, the US store still shows a 24-hour ship time (and free shipping). The Airport Extreme was last updated in August, 2007. What say you?
No Time Machine for AEBS disks?
Filed under: AirPort, Not Cool, Rampant Speculation, That's Weird..., Updates
Apple’s new list of the 300 + new features in Leopard is indeed causing us to look at 10.5 as a more important update than we initially thought. However, it seems that while many new features have been added, one may have been taken away. Faithful Macenstein reader (and disappointed AirPort Extreme Base Station user) Deej writes:
“I was looking in the AirPort Discussion boards on Apple’s site, and noticed something which I think you’re reader should know about. Apparently Apple has removed all references of AirPort Disks from the description of Time Machine. By Way of comparison, here is the ‘old’ description, still found on the UK Apple site (and Google cache):”
Effortless meets wireless. With a hard disk connected to your AirPort Extreme Base Station, all the Macs in your house can use Time Machine to back up wirelessly. Simply select your AirPort Disk as the backup disk for each computer and the whole family can enjoy the benefits of Time Machine.
“And here is the new one:”
You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.
Hmmm… Well, you’re right Deej, that does in indeed look kind of bad for AirPort users planning to use Time Machine to back up to AirPort Disks. Here’s hoping it’s either some sort of oversight on the part of Apple’s web copy guys, or that a AEBS firmware update is in the works to make this (once again) possible.
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