In the past I've generally gotten standard Linksys wireless routers, but recently I went for the Airport Extreme, mostly because I wanted to attach a NAS drive.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the design of it though, it lives up to the Apple reputation. There's only one light on the front, and it's generally pretty accurate: green if everything is fine, orange if something is wrong. If there is a problem, it often pops up a message on one of your machines with a very legible message about what's wrong, and even a picture on how it should probably be fixed.

A few features you don't hear about much:

* You can set different passwords for getting onto the network and for accessing each individual drive. I like to keep my network open, but I don't want to share my data so promiscuously.

* You can do wireless time machine backups to the attached drive. It's not advertised, nor explicitly supported, but it works.

* The UI makes it appear like you could attach multiple drives, I suppose through a USB hub. Note: I haven't tried this.

* IPv6, by default, out of the box. This works whether or not your ISP explicitly supports IPv6. I mean, it's gotta be the future sometime.

So, yeah. I'd recommend it.

Danziel_86 got it completely right. Ironman's all about some centralization of power and security theatre these days. Civil War casts him and Reed Richards as hyperbolic villains.

They look pretty well constructed, but do you have any comments on their durability? That's my biggest problem with the ones that come with the iPhone.

For headphones that you carry with you 24/7, that's a significant issue.

I was surprised. I expected to dislike this, 'cause text is usually so superior to video, especially over talking heads. But I think it was a net win to do a video review for a device like this one, where seeing it being used and watching someone manipulate it communicated its size and affordances well.

Also, your review style was excellent. I hope you do more in the future (when reviewing things that need this kind of treatment).