MC207LL/A – K84 BEST BTR- USA
MC238LL/A – MAC MINI 2.26/2×1GB/160/SD/AP/BT-USA
MC239LL/A- MAC MINI 2.53/2×2GB/320GB/SD/AP/BT-USA
MC340LL/A – AIRPORT EXTREME (SIM DUALBAND) – USA
MC343LL/A – TIME CAPSULE 1TB (SIM DUALBAND) -USA
MC344LL/A – TIME CAPSULE 2TB (SIM DUALBAND) – USA
MC408LL/A – MAC MINI 2.53/2×2GB/1TB/NO ODD/AP-BT-USA
MC413LL/A – IMAC 21.5″/3.06/2×2GB/1TB/4670-256MB-USA
MC434LL/A – APPLE VESA MOUNT ADAPTER
MC461LL/A – MACBOOK 60W MAGSAFE POWER adaptor – USA

K84 Best BTR? Sounds like a new Bluetooth Keyboard. SIM dualband? Are the AirPort and Time Capsules tying in with cellphones? Apple VESA mount adapter? Since when Apple does that kind of accessory?

The new products will not be earth-shattering material—Apple won’t announce anything wowiezowie without an event—but I’m curious about the whole SIM dualband thing. [AppleInsider]

That’s the average life span of the 125—and counting—dead Apple Time Capsules at The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register. And all the users who registered those dead pieces of plastic and metal are saying that’s not enough. I agree that the figure seems too low. But then again, like Matt Buchanan just said when he heard about it: “They’re all using shitty Hitachi hard drives that aren’t actually server grade, so colour me less than surprised.”

I say they all have a point. [Time Capsule Memorial via TUAW]

AU:$729 for 2TB and $429 for 1 locally

Brent Freidman lays out exactly how to get Time Machine backups to work with any Windows Home Server machine in a point-by-point method that’s pretty easy, despite some Terminal tinkering to make it work—follow that here.

If you wanna use just a generic NAS, you can do that too. Personally, I followed this guide by Adam Cohen-Rose—though there are others—to get it going on a 4TB WD ShareSpace several months ago, though WD now has a much cheaper consumer version. It’s a hack that also takes a little bit of work, but ditching the USB cable is totally worth it.

If you’re in the market for a NAS (if you don’t have one, you are, even if you don’t know it yet) check out our guide to finding the perfect networked storage.

Definitely a good weekend project, so let us know how it goes or if you have any tips in our fancy new comments if make the the attempt. [CompuGeek via MS Windows Home Server]

My cat discovers yet another of life’s simple pleasures: The sensation of $US500 warming one’s butt.

(Steve Jobs’ disdain for the whirring of cooling fans is pretty good at creating devices that felines enjoy parking themselves on.)

Apple’s offering a $US30 discount to MobileMe users on both OS X Leopard and Time Capsule. This makes us think that a 2TB Time Capsule is coming soon. Here’s why.

• Snow Leopard is due out soon, so Apple needs to clear out Leopard inventory via a $US30 discount
• 2TB hard drives just hit the market relatively recently, so NASes and other storage devices using 2TB are the next logical step
• ClubMac and MacMall both showed rendered box shots of a 2TB Time Capsule drive

So with the above points, it seems likely to conclude that Apple’s either phasing out the 500GB Time Capsule units in order to make room for the 2TB ones, or just want to reward the people who have been MobileMe customers for a while.

The Back to My Mac is only for MobileMe users, and Airport Express remains unchanged, but if you’re looking forward to being able to access a bunch of files easily while you’re at work/home/somewhere else, it’s pretty handy. [Apple Insider]

For the end user, this means a few things. As expected, the dual-band feature broadcasts on both 2.4GHz (802.11b/g/n) and 5GHz (802.11a/n) frequencies, allowing client devices to connect to whichever standard suits them without forcing the whole access point one way or the other. In other words, different devices could be connected to both g and n network simultaneously.

Guest Networking is a clever feature that essentially sets up a walled, parallel hotspot that provides only internet access, keeping the rest of your network private from connected users—perfect if you share your wi-fi with neighbours, or just run a particularly promiscuous access point.

Otherwise, the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule are almost exactly the same—Time Capsule storage options remain at 500GB and 1TB, for which the prices stay at $US300 and $US500, respectively. The AirPort Extreme still hovers at a lofty $US180, a blow only slightly mitigated by the new features. Both are shipping right now, to the rich. [Apple]