I'm so pissed about this. Airport Extreme users have been getting the shaft more than anyone else lately, and for a variety of reasons. First of all, I buy an Airport Extreme for the purpose of using it with Leopard's Time Machine. I buy the Airport Extreme, and two days later, Airport Extreme with Gigabit Ethernet comes out. Not a big deal, but still kind of lame. Leopard comes out, and they silently pull the plug on Airport Extreme Time Machine support! It took a while for Apple to even acknowledge the problem, leaving the discussion forums over on the Apple website up in arms. To add insult to injury, the 7.2.1 update of the Airport Extreme firmware rendered AirDisk completely useless to people who upgrade to Leopard. Many Leopard users on MacBook Pros discovered that after putting the computer to sleep, the AirDisk is no longer accessible upon waking up again UNTIL YOU FRIGGIN RESTART THE BASESTATION. Bullshit. Complete bullshit. So far, Apple isn't even acknowledging the problem and the only way to solve the problem is to downgrade to firmware 7.1.1.
So now, after all of this, I find that they're abandoning Airport Extreme for Time Capsule! WONDERFUL. Thanks Apple!
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John @ Jan 21st 2008 5:10PM
I'm so pissed about this. Airport Extreme users have been getting the shaft more than anyone else lately, and for a variety of reasons. First of all, I buy an Airport Extreme for the purpose of using it with Leopard's Time Machine. I buy the Airport Extreme, and two days later, Airport Extreme with Gigabit Ethernet comes out. Not a big deal, but still kind of lame. Leopard comes out, and they silently pull the plug on Airport Extreme Time Machine support! It took a while for Apple to even acknowledge the problem, leaving the discussion forums over on the Apple website up in arms. To add insult to injury, the 7.2.1 update of the Airport Extreme firmware rendered AirDisk completely useless to people who upgrade to Leopard. Many Leopard users on MacBook Pros discovered that after putting the computer to sleep, the AirDisk is no longer accessible upon waking up again UNTIL YOU FRIGGIN RESTART THE BASESTATION. Bullshit. Complete bullshit. So far, Apple isn't even acknowledging the problem and the only way to solve the problem is to downgrade to firmware 7.1.1.
So now, after all of this, I find that they're abandoning Airport Extreme for Time Capsule! WONDERFUL. Thanks Apple!