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Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives – Mac Rumors

At last!

I’m finally able to use my USB Lacie disk attached to my Airport Extreme Base Station with Time Machine.

Although the first backup is a tad slow (obviously it depends on how big is the backup), subsequent backups seems to work very well.

I have to eat my hat for what I wrote some posts ago about Apple not fulfilling advertised features…

Well done Apple.

Yesterday Apple released update 10.5.2 and other updated components for Leopard.

The update is huge, more than 341MB of download.

With this update Apple fixes a big number of bug and introduces some new features. Mail, Finder, Spaces, Time Machine, Airport… the list is very long, you can read the full description here.

The update process went on smoothly, my MacBookPro rebooted a couple of times and then all was finished. I can notice a speed improvement on the overall system responsiveness and many of the bugs of Leopard are gone (or so it seems).

All good then?

No, unfortunately not.

I was waiting for an update that would enable the use of  my external Lacie 500MB disk connected to the Airport Extreme Base Station to be used together with Time Machine. Before the update, fiddling on the terminal, I was able to use the external HD with time machine but the speed was awful sloooow… Now, after the update there is no way to use the HD… every time I start the backup process I get an error telling me that an error creating the disk image occurred.

I begin to suspect that uncle Steve is forcing us to buy its new toy… Time Capsule… but I’m a bit disappointed about that.

As promised, this is my little review of my new MacBook Pro.

This is a CTO MacBook Pro: Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz, 200 GB 7200 RPM Hard Disk, 15.4 Widescreen display.

It took approximately 3 weeks to arrive at the Apple center were I bought it. It’s a very long time but it was ordered near Christmas so this maybe slowed down the shipping. (continue reading…)

Yes, my new shiny MacBookPro is finally arrived!Well, actually, it’s arrived last sunday and in the last few days I tested it extensively. I will post my impressions in the next few days. For now I can only say that it’s very fast and smooth. Leopard feels very good and “advanced” compared to the other systems I own.

Anyway enough for now.