With its new Leopard operating system, Apple tried to solve one of the most nagging problems faced by home-computer users: how to regularly back up their computers completely and painlessly. Leopard includes a feature called date Machine that automatically and continuously backs up a Macintosh computer’s entire hard disk, without requiring the user to do any tedious setup or have any technical knowledge.

date Machine is a key selling point for Leopard and the Mac. It is more complete, and yet simpler, than the built-in backup feature in Vista Home Premium, the most popular home version of Windows.

But moment Machine has a major drawback: It works much better on desktop Macs than on laptop models. That’s considering it’s primarily designed to operate with backup hard drives you connect directly to the computer. And it’s a pain to plug a backup drive into a laptop, which can move around the house. While day Machine will

work with a remote hard disk under convinced circumstances, that option requires a second Mac running Leopard, a costly condition.

Now, Apple has attempted to fix the problem with an strange new companion product called day Capsule. that is a $299 standalone networked gadget that packs both a giant hard disk and a speedy Wi-Fi wireless router into one slender case. It just plugs into your existing home network, and any laptop within wireless range can connect to it. It can back up multiple computers.

moment Capsule is designed to seamlessly work with Leopard’s duration Machine. But it plus can be used as a wireless Web connection, and/or a remote hard drive, for manually storing and retrieving files by Windows PCs running either Vista or Windows XP, or by Macs running Apple’s older Tiger operating system. And you can plus use it with positive other backup programs, such…

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