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Time Capsule: The Arrival

I picked up Time Capsule on Friday at the Apple Store while my friend is still waiting for his pre-order to arrive. Take that Vondiggity!

I bought the 500GB version because:

  • I didn’t see the 1 TeraByte version in the particular Apple Store.
  • I don’t want to spend $500 + sales tax for it.

Time Capsule comes with AirPort Utility 5.3 for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard AirPort utility has version 5.2.2 included.

Airport Utility 5.3

The Time Capsule I have is using Seagate Barracuda® ES SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive, model number ST3500630NS.

From Seagate:

The Seagate® Barracuda® ES enterprise hard drive is the industry’s most reliable, highest capacity 7200-RPM hard drive for 24 x 7, multidrive, business-critical applications. The Barracuda ES hard drive is built with perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity, reliability and cost-effectiveness.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reported that one user’s 1 TeraByte Time Capsule is equipped with HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 (full tech specs here in pdf format).

From Hitachi:

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000

Applications

  • Internal and external storage for consumer
  • computers
  • Networked storage servers
  • Extreme gaming machines
  • Video editing arrays

Is it possible that the 500GB model has a better hard drive, or there are a lot more variations on the installed hard drive models?

UPDATE:
The highest capacity for Seagate Barracuda ES is 750GB. Meanwhile, Seagate Barracuda ES.2 is available in capacity up to 1 TeraByte.

Time Capsule Installer Disc

Time Capsule 1 Time Capsule 2 Time Capsule 3

Time Capsule 4 Time Capsule 5  Time Capsule 6

Time Capsule 7

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“One New MacBook Please.”

One thing that I always love doing is spending someone else’s money buying computers. I picked up a new white MacBook with SuperDrive yesterday. It looks exactly the same with the previous Santa-Rosa MacBook. It comes with a screen-cleaning cloth inside the box.

I only had 2 hours to install applications and transferring the data from the last generation of iBook G4. I’d update this post after I use the MacBook more.

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Early 2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro

After a seemingly waiting forever for new MacBook Pro, Apple finally releases the updates to both MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. The MacBook Pro update was expected but not for the MacBook.

As predicted, the new MacBook and MacBook Pro sport Intel’s latest Penryn-based Core 2 Duo with 3MB and 6MB L2 Cache. Based on the conversations I had, Apple is finally making a significant distinction between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. The MacBook line sports 45nm Penryn-based Core 2 Duo processors with 3MB L2 Cache as opposed to previous generation Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 4MB L2 Cache. We’ll get to that later. The MacBook Pro line also sports 45nm Penryn-based Core 2 Duo processors with 3MB and 6MB L2 Cache. The “lower-end” 15-inch MacBook Pro comes with 3MB L2 Cache on the Processor, while the “top-end” 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro come with 6MB L2 Cache on the processor.

The Penryn-based Intel Core 2 Duo comes with 6MB L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed. I’d find out if my memory served me correctly that previous generations of Intel Core 2 Duo L2 cache ran at half speed with the processor. UPDATE: According to some people, Merom CPU does have L2 cache that runs at 1:1 speed with the cores.

The new MacBook and MacBook Pro no longer comes with Apple Remote

I will update this.

I am looking forward to test the new MacBook and MacBook Pro.

to be continued here

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iPhone and iPod touch Software 1.1.4 is Released

Apple releases iPhone and iPod touch Software 1.1.4 today.

The iPhone Software 1.1.4 weighs in on 162.1MB, exactly the same with iPhone Software 1.1.3 file size.

iPhone Sotwares

I’m updating my iPhone right now. I don’t have an iPod touch, so Apple, please send me one. :-p
to be continued.

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Apple Releases iTunes 7.6.1

iTunes Icon

Apple releases iTunes 7.6.1 to address compatibility issues with Apple TV software version 2.0 along with several bug fixes.

iTunes is available for Mac OSX and Windows XP/Vista

Apple Software Update - iTunes 7.6.1

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