On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Nesta Nesta wrote: > OS X has this great, great, feature: tell your computer to turn on and off at > a given time, and it does it. > > I've never seen it anywhere else; so how was it done and why is it that > others have not been able to provide this great feature? > > And by the way, those with the latest and greatest, is that feature still > around in your shinny cookie boxes?
My 2010 'shinny cookie box' iMac does indeed allow me to shut down/start up at a given time, but then, depending on the power features of the bios, so have most other computers for quite a while. <http://lifehacker.com/5831504/how-can-i-start-and-shut-down-my-computer-automatically-every-morning> It is, as the site notes, "much easier on a Mac than on Windows. " How it works is pretty simple. To paraphrase Miracle Max "your computer here is only MOSTLY off. There's a big difference between mostly off and all off. Mostly off is slightly on." Enough of the computer's circuitry remains powered up to detect a time signal to start up, or, in the case of Wake on LAN for something knocking on the Ethernet port to start up the computer. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
