[CUBE] PL upgrade (Was: Feedback from GigaDesigns!)

[James Knight]

I find it tiresome to have to startup & shutdown each day, sleep & wake is
far more convenient.

Hard disk & monitor sleep is of course the next best thing, but the CPU does
not sleep and this does consume some power. Also, many external devices will
sleep too when the Cube is in deep sleep mode.

I like to put my Cube into the lowest-power mode possible when I'm not using
it in order to increase it's life expectancy and as part of my contribution
to better energy efficiency.

James


on 16/1/03 5:44 am, a l a n t h o m p s o n at athomp2 at mac.com wrote:

> can the folks on the list that utilize the sleep functionality tell me
> why using sleep is critical for them?
> 
> i'm *not* at all judging the use of those who use the sleep function -
> i just really don't understand it, or rather, using it on desktop
> machines.  now, on my ibook?  use it several times a day.  works
> flawlessly.  if it didn't, i'd be very annoyed.  but from my point of
> view, using sleep on a desktop is not critical or convenient as it
> might be for a laptop.
> 
> my cube stays on 24x7 aside from silly apple updates that require it to
> reboot (quicktime 6.1 required a restart!).  another point of reference
> - gf2mx, small heatsink, no fan.
> 
> --alan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:03 AM, blah blah wrote:
> 
>> sleep problems.
> 
> 
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