nah, that’s no solution since it restarts the entire AppleTV which is no fun if you want to use it like a TV. There is a name for the component it is missing. RVCH or some such. The upcoming AppleTV will surely have it, or it could entirely be a Steve thing since he knows it’s going to be a torrent like server in the next rev, so always needs to be on. Hum.

@ steve w

but the AppleTV simply never powers down, there is NO sleep mode like a Mac, Printers, Monitors, Hard Drives, etc. Plus there is NO power switch, you have to pull the plug. That’s what this article is discussing.

Spoken like a true person that has never used an AppleTV. It’s a streaming video, audio, photo, podcast, etc… device… so its capacity is unlimited since the ATV uses the internet as one big hard drive. I’ve used my ATV hard for almost 3 years and the 40GB drive only has about 6GB used. So you fundamentally don’t understand how it operates.

The interface runs circles around a Mac mini running FrontRow so except for yes, it not having a sleep mode, it’s Apple’s best value in their entire product line.

I think the article states fairly plainly why that isn’t a good idea. Generally speaking the Apple TV has to do a complete rebuild after you interrupt its power source.

Oh Matt, you didn’t understand: DON”T MAKE IT A BIG DEAL, JUST TURN OFF THE POWER STRIP OR UNPLUG THE TING.h

It is an iPod for streaming video, and not much else. The terribly small capacity reflects its origins as a growth from the iPod model of function, and remember (and any update to the device should have this) It was probably considered a possible docking station for a portable iPod as well (hidden under the hood of the first models, until it was realized, iTunes store bloat would overwhelm it.

Now, would you say, other than capacity, that the typical iPod Touch or iPhone now offers -more- than the AppleTV, which has not shifted much? Probably. It is a place holder until the HDTV transition gets its act in gear, regarding tuning standards. Would a MacMini work better, doubling, with some effort, as a Tivo like DVR/DVD with blueray perhaps in the future? Yes, but it wouldn’t meet the price point. The idea is, you have a cheap box you can attach to your TV(s), and not worry about much else, as long as viewing your media is involved. Media you conveniently got from the iTunes Store, so Hollywood et al would not get up tight. AppleTV is a probe, a toe into the water, that will safely go ignored while one sizes up the pool.

Steve, why buy clues when I can get them for free? Here‘s info on the range of Linux suspend options, as an example:

ACPI sleep states enable you to send the system in a low-power consuming sleep mode. There are two sleep modes dealt with in this howto:

* ACPI S3, sleep mode 3, also referred to as suspend-to-ram. This is a state of very low power consumption, where most of the hardware is switched off, and only a little energy is used to keep the memory alive during sleep.
* ACPI S4, also referred to as suspend-to-disk. This is a state where no power is consumed. An image of the memory is written to disk, then the hardware is switched off. Booting the system will read the image back and restore all running programs.

My MacBook Pro can sleep, my Mac Pro can sleep. My Apple TV should too.

And BTW, Wake-on-LAN is a feature that every computer has, regardless of OS or type of fruit used as logo.

Apple Printers could be “turned on and off” by the Mac. Ditto Apple Displays.