PowerNap

[Phil Stringer]

Lets get this thing enabled on older hardware! Anyone have any ideas?

[Bor de Kock]

Not a good idea: there is a pretty good reason for Apple to make this thing hardware specific. If your Mac with a traditional hard drive would go powernapping then there is a severe risk for overheating. If you want to cope with that by starting to switch on fans than you're probably going against the entire idea of the PowerNap-thing. 

Reference: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/56146/why-do-some-macs-not-support-power-nap-in-mountain-lion 

—Bor 

Op 26 jul. 2012, om 06:33 heeft Phil Stringer <ph...@techsalot.com> het volgende geschreven:

Lets get this thing enabled on older hardware! Anyone have any ideas?

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[Phil Stringer]

Right, but I have an SSD drive. 

Thanks,

Phil Stringer

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On Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:17:22 PM UTC+1, Phil Stringer wrote:

Right, but I have an SSD drive.

From the power management section of John Siracusa's Mountain Lion review:

Power Nap requires "built-in" SSD storage because solid-state drives meant to replace traditional spinning hard drives have very different power requirements. So even if your (non-Retina) MacBook Pro came from Apple with an SSD, Power Nap remains unsupported.

Your SSD is too hungry.