Quick Tip: Scheduling Sleep and Wake Times
I like my Mac to be ready for me every day when I wake up, but I don’t want it wasting away during the night, after snooping about the the energy savings preference pane I found out how to schedule your mac to sleep and wake up.
Here are the steps:
Go to: System Preferences > Energy Saver > Schedule
In this pane, pictured above you can set timings for your Mac to go to sleep and to wake up whenever you want. For instance I have mine set to go to sleep and about 2am (because sometimes I am up pretty late and don’t want it falling asleep on me) and then for it to wake up at 6am so my computer alarm will actually go off, which it sometimes doesn’t when it is asleep.
One thing that I would like it to do that it doesn’t; is for it to be able to set sleep and wake times throughout the day, so if I wanted it to shut off every morning for half an hour because I know I won’t be there half the time.
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That’s really useful - I never thought of scheduling wake up times. But how much energy does it consume when it’s asleep?
December 26th, 2007 at 1:14 pmHey Jonathan,
I found sometimes ago some apps that are ding what you want
December 26th, 2007 at 9:08 pmhttp://www.dssw.co.uk/powermanager/
http://blog.smalldog.com/article/717/automatically-wake-up-shut-down-your-mac-os-104
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