David Wright wrote: > Sorry, "idling" is probably not the best term—I extracted the line > from a spreadsheet of power consumptions for a multitude of different > electronics and electrical appliances. For this PC, it means switched > on, but with only the NIC waiting for a wakeup call. So the disks, fan > and, I assume, the CPU, are not running. The ability to wake it up is > not something I currently use on this machine because of its > convenient location; though after shutdown, I don't rush to turn off > the wall switch.
Idle is understood, when the CPU is doing nothing (but the PC is fully running)