Hi Paul, Josh, Will, Sarah, and Other, Power nap also requires a firmware upgrade to work for the supported models. This is a hardware limitation, because you can't run power nap without excessive heat generation except on the newest processors, which are built with on-board flash memory modules that connect directly to the logic board. This means that even if you replace your hard drives with solid state drives, you don't achieve the power consumption savings you need to safely run this. And the newer Intel processors also use less power.
For more details, read the recent Macworld article by Dan Frakes, "Up close with Mountain Lion: Power Nap", and navigate to the header "Why isn't my Mac supported?" http://www.macworld.com/article/1167970/up_close_with_mountain_lion_power_nap.html By the way, members who are new to the Mac should use the Safari Reader feature (Toggled on and off with Command-Shift-R) to read this page. This provides an "uncluttered" version of the article content that saves you having to navigate through extraneous links, ads, and graphics that appear on the same web page as an article. HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
