Can you believe it! The box is squarish on both sides! Wow, and there appears to be styofoam inside! Or maybe not! Oh, and look! This thing has a bottom? I must have the flu and delirious with fever, because I was really thinking apple wasn't going to be putting a bottom on this thing. And, look, they did. It even has the apple logo! And then, OMG, I don't believe it, there's paper booklets! And a CD!! And cables!!! I can't be sure, but I'm betting one is a power cable! Man, in my wildest dreams I never thought I'd see an Airport basestation come with its own power cable!

Another machead who's got apparently nothing better to do then take pictures of packing material! Of course, he also has Comcast as his broadband provider, so I guess that kind of gives one an idea what he must be like...

If you can't appreciate the point of posting all those pictures, then we all know what YOU must be like.

What is the point of posting ALL those pictures? Are there really people out there even bigger losers then myself who actually drool over a roll of pics of boxes, materials, etc? I mean, there's a picture of the box, with the lid open, with all the stuff still inside. Exactly the point? To show that the stuff was actually in the box, and not some 'illusion'? There's a picture with some stuff out of the box, and the cables still in it, then another showing everything out of the box. And they actually included the carboard separator in the picture? Must be some photo student trying to make an artistic point, I guess. Then what of the fact there's not one, but TWO pictures of the booklets, one with CD, one without. Is this a shocker? Did we think the FCC documentation wasn't going to be in there?

Then you've got the picture of the back, a closer shot of the back (in case you had trouble seeing the three LAN ports, I guess), one of the BOTTOM (the bottom? What, because we're just dying to know what the one part of the machine you'll never look at or see is really like?), one with an AE next to it, one with it on top, one an angle shot with the AE on top. And yet, there's not one good picture from the front?

But I guess if you're going to spend $180 on a wireless router, you might as well pretend you got something close to being worth it.

I was under the impression there would be 2 USB ports - 1 for a printer and 1 for a hard drive. That's one of the reasons I bought the thing - shared printer and shared drive.

...are people who write 5 paragraphs about the pictures.

I believe that I remember hearing that it supports plugging in a USB hub into the 1 port--you can then hook multiple peripherals (printer, shared drive, etc.) into the hub.

They didn't include some more connections like firewire or SATA. If you're going to use it for a network drive (especially with this new, many times faster standard) you would enable a faster connection for pro applications. Were you to add that hub to it, the drive read/write speeds drop even further.

It was ingenious to allow you to hook up and external drive. This makes it possible for people to use thier existing hardware and determine the amount of space you need. Perhaps Apple or a third party will come up router with the faster connection types.

No forced you to click the link to this article nor did anyone force you to suffer by looking at the photos. Some people may have wanted to see what it looks like.

It was ingenious to allow you to hook up and external drive. This makes it possible for people to use thier existing hardware and determine the amount of space you need.

its a nice feature, but it certainly not unique.

Now I know what I getting in a few days and can just the size a bit better.