David! You're protestething too much, I think! I'm surprised you bought a Time Capsule - it didn't seem worth it to me to pay the standard "Apple tax". I bought a 2TB Western Digital Mybook, rigged so hard drive A automatically mirrors itself on hard drive B; that way if HD A fails, I'll still have my backup.

I also use Dropbox, but through invitations now have about 5.5 GB of backup space. I use it mostly for sharing large files with friends, and for backing up my current draft.

That said, I have never had to go back and ferret through all those windows in Time Machine looking for a particular file, and the Western Digital software (which I ignored when I installed my external HD) looks clean and attractive.

Anyway, Time Machine has been fine for me, with Dropbox perfect for guerilla back-ups and file sharing.