The other announcement from the Macworld keynote was Time Capsule, a 500GB ($299) or 1TB ($499) NAS intended for use over wifi with Time Machine. Great for laptops, and not a bad price, especially since it can replace your Airport Extreme Base Station. I use a Linksys WRT54G router with the HyperWRT Thibor firmware, which is loads more featured and configurable than the stock, and even the AEBS. I’ve considered getting an AEBS before, but side by side I just cannot think of any reason to choose it over the upgraded Linksys other than it’s white and made by Apple. Time Capsule is great, but it makes no sense to sell a router in 2008 without a Web interface.

What I wonder though is if Time Capsule is a product intended to replace the axed Leopard feature of backing up to a network volume. You can easily enable this feature with a defaults preference, but it’s not enabled by default. It would be unforgivable if Apple disabled a perfectly useful feature just to boost Time Capsule sales.