Mac energy saving discussions

These discussions cover Mac energy saving and power issues.

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Discussions between 7 July 2008 and 6 August 2008.
Subject

Always keep ibook on?

“A friend of mine went to the apple store and was advised to keep her laptop always on never turn it off”

Booting off of external drive causes power-down

“it *will* boot, but after thinking about it for a bit, instead of putting up a login screen, it powers the system down.”

Mac Air battery life and other question

“Are there good external batteries that don't weigh so much as to defeat he purpose of buying a Mac Air?”

This fit a UK iBook adapter?

“I need the UK plug end of an iBook AC power adapter (I bought an iBook for spares from the US).”

Pismo won't charge battery

“It works fine but now it won't charge battery. I tried different power cords but no dice.”

WakeOnLAN across WAN

“I can get it to work on the LAN, but can't get it to work across the WAN to wake my father's computer.”

G5 battery

“Dos anyone know the spec/ref of the clock battery on a first gen G5”

MacBook battery replacement

“I'm not sure if slightly smaller price makes up the uncertainty of buying this product.”

Temperature of Computer and Peripherals?

“Is the heat of the Mac and hard drive something I should be concerned with? Or should I stop worrying about it?”

Sleep/Restart shortcuts for non-Apple kb's?

“Is there a keyboard shortcut that can put this Mac Mini to sleep if I'm not using an Apple keyboard?”
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