[iamnotmad]

Hi all, I am getting a new laptop soon and currently use TM for my desktop and my wifes laptop (wirelessly obviously). This configuration is working fine and is supported (unlike "airdisk"). When I get my new laptop I will relegate my old desktop to serving up my ps3/xbox360/tivo/squeezebox (oy!) and plan to keep it also as a file server for TimeMachine.

I also plan to get an airport extreme base station, but I'm wondering if there would be any advantage to waiting and getting a TimeCapsule? I can't think of any reason to use TC over my old desktop (since it will be running most of the time anyway). And the advantage to using the mac is that I can easily replace/upgrade my TIme Machine HD space.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.

[legacyb4]

Depends on what connection your desktop has to your wireless router since the new Time Capsule would support up to 'n' speeds.

I think that TC is really targeted towards laptop users who don't necessarily want a tethered external drive or don't want to have a desktop running for that purpose; otherwise, it's quite easy to have Time Machine mount the shared folder on your desktop when it's time to run a backup since this will happen automatically.

[iamnotmad]

yeah, the desktop will be wired to my existing GB router (the router that the AEBS will be wired to, to get N to my laptops). This is what I thought, there is no reason to choose a TC if I will have a basically always running file server machine.
thanks.