Walt Mossberg Takes A Look At Time Capsule

Apart from the MacBook Air the Time Capsule is another product that I’m excited to get my hands on. Since we’re a little behind in getting Apple products here in Manila, I have yet to see a Time Capsule in person. So in lieu of that, I’m settling and consoling myself first by reading Walt Mossberg’s column about Time Capsule.

In Walt’s tests Time Capsule worked well in both Mac and Windows environment. However in OS X Tiger and Windows Vista and XP, Time Capsule is detected as a remote hard drive. You can connect to it and move files to and from Time Capsule. Time Capsule also seems to work with other backup software other than Time Machine but Time Machine is by far the easiest and seamless way of backing up. Even if it does lack the feature to boot from the backup it makes.

The backup program of Windows XP Pro worked well with Time Capsule but Vista didn’t fare as well. Microsoft said it was an issue with a new security feature.

Backing up is really one of the most important things that a computer user should do and one that’s also often neglected. Time Capsule promises to help in this aspect. From what Walt wrote it might just do the trick.