On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
This would add $25/mo to my electric bill (at 15 cents the KWH). Which is why when this occurred to me, I set my G4s to sleep when left alone for a bit.
The heat vented from the G5 will off-set some of the heating costs in the winter, so you might not necessarily want to sleep your Mac in winter, especially if you have a cold room. Perhaps there could be a G5 app called "Space Heater" that cranks out full heat, or even has a thermostat to keep the room just right. In summer it would cost not only the direct electricity for the G5, but also any extra electricity needed to air-condition the room with the G5.
Apple's "Safe Sleep" is where it shuts down completely and then restarts instantly from a RAM sleep image loaded directly into RAM to restore the exact previous state is also called "hibernation". It's kind of an oxymoron that you might want to hibernate your Mac in the summer. I think we might want to "aestivate" our Macs in the summer?
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