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 - great for apple computers but, hard drive is very slowI purchased this product expecting to have wireless hard drive and printer set up. I attached hard drive and printer to time capsule. Printer works fine and hard drive is very slow. it is only adequeate for document server purpose Also time machine takes forever! Rating: - gets a tad hot ...got this to (sorta) replace a lacie 2big nas that is a bit too noisy & has a few other issues: pros: really quiet. the 11n radio is very powerful. typical attractive (imho) apple design. cons: gets really really hot, then kills its server, which forces a disconnect; kinda inconvenient when attempting a backup (i'm not using time machine to this device). a power reset is then required. caveat: i swapped its 500gb drive for a wd green 1tb drive. but that supposedly runs cooler ... Rating:  - Time CapsuleHad difficult making connection from my Macbook. After making connections, it works great. Love how I can add a hub for extra USB hookups. Make sure your hub has a power adapter or you will not be able to see all of your hookups. I dislike when I reboot my computer, I have to reconnect the internet. My airport in my Macbook doesn't just reconnect without a little help. All in all, I would recommend it. Rating:  - Best Wireless Router Backup Drive AvailableI replaced my old wireless router with the Apple Time Capsule. Installation and setup was easy and straightforward. I had everything up and running in about 30 minutes. We have a PC desktop and Mac laptop which both work seamlessly with the time capsule. At first look the time capsule appears expensive, but remember that it includes a 500GB backup drive which will automatically backup and sync with the Mac Time Machine. You can also Drag and Drop from the PC or use Drive image software and copy an image onto the drive. The wireless modem is extremely fast and covers all three floors of my house. Rating: - Works well with Time Machine - should be easy to partitionI tried to set Time Capsule up quickly in my niece's dorm, but ran out of time. She called 1-800-my-apple and got the wireless router going, but not the printer. I came back a week later and got the printer and an external drive (via a USB hub) going through Time Capsule and Time Machine backing up to Time Capsule. It runs well. Do not hesitate to call Apple Care. Write down your passwords. I saw that it was possible (using a disc image) to partition the Time Capsule into something other than one giant 500 GB drive. But I was concerned that nobody else would understand what I did, so I did not attempt it. But we are using the 500 GB drive just to back up a Mac Air (80 GB) and a WD Passport external hard drive (150 GB capacity, 30GB used so far), so there is going to be a lot of unused space on the Time Capsule drive for a long time. I guess better too much space than too little. It is an expensive but excellent way to back up a student's Mac Air and external drive. I wish that Apple made it easy to partition the Time Capsule drive during the installation process. The Time Capsule drive and the external hard drive attached to it show up under the name of the Time Capsule in the Finder panel on the left side of the screen (in Finder press Go/Computer to see them). They do not automatically appear as icons on the desktop like other drives plugged into the USB port (and, on other Macs, into the firewire ports). The drives do not appear in the panel, only the router name. When you click on the router name, the hard drives attached to the Time Capsule appear. I wish that those hard drives appeared under the router name, like subsidiaries of the router. I suppose that you could make an Alias (which I guess is like a Shortcut in Windows) to put an icon for the drive on the desktop, and I will try that next time I am in that dorm. The instructions to the Time Capsule are basic. When they let you down, call Apple Care or go online, where there are many threads about the Time Capsule. To get the printer going, I plugged the printer into the USB hub (that I ran to the USB port on the Time Capsule) and started the whole Time Capsule install process over. It is not a hassle, because the install program remembers all of your passwords and other inputs from the last time you used the install program. Then the printer worked. (Well, I had a hard time finding a driver for an HP LasetJet P1006, but the drive for another 1000 series seemed to work OK. This is after installing the CD that came with the new printer and also downloading a later driver (for OSX) from the HP website. Kinda frustrating...) After pressing Print, the basic HP LaserJet took more time to start printing over the Time Capsule than it took attached directly to the USB port of the Mac Air, but it was not a painfully long time. On the computer in System Preferences/Printers and Faxes you also have to install a new printer (the one attached via Time Capsule) (press the plus sign), even if the same physical printer was already installed when it was attached directly to the Mac Air USB port. You might keep the old printer in System Preferences in case you need to plug the printer back into the computer's USB port some day.
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