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John English — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:46:55 +0000

I’m running an Airport Extreme network with three macs. I could not access this unit remotely. According to the software supplier, mac software is unavailable. I also could not get a USB hard drive attached to the unit to work properly. The drive appeared, as the instructions indicated it would, as a shared folder but I could not access it from Mac’s Finder function. These two failures made this unit, for me, become merely a very pricy 1TB external hard drive, albeit one that can only be accessed via Ethernet. A better solution for Apple users is an Airport Extreme (the one to which you can add your own external hard drive(s)) and Apple’s Mobile Me service which gives you Internet file access and much more.

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Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:37:22 +0000

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By: Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:03:23 +0000

Western Digital says it doesn’t work with Time Machine, and, when I tried it, TM didn’t recognize the drive. I didn’t test it on netbook, but it did work fine on Windows 7 and I know of no reason why an Atom-powered machine couldn’t handle it.

As for simultaneous file use…I think that’s an edge case, so didn’t test it.