{"id":28858,"date":"2020-05-06T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28858"},"modified":"2021-05-05T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:39:27","slug":"mac-pros-dont-really-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/mac-pros-dont-really-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Pros Don&rsquo;t Really Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/1257130621773574144\">Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/1257130621773574144\"><p>One weird thing about the Mac Pro I haven&rsquo;t seen mentioned&#8230; It does not support sleep. It can do display sleep, and the sleep command in the Apple Menu will trigger display sleep. But the machine itself will not support deep sleep and the fans will always run.<\/p><p>I don&rsquo;t know if it has its own version of sleep that isn&rsquo;t deep sleep. Power nap is there. But it doesn&rsquo;t sleep like other Macs where the fan turns off and the machine is on standby. And if you tap the keyboard to wake it feels like only the display is sleeping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmrpippy\/status\/1257143385606852608\">Brendan Shanks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmrpippy\/status\/1257143385606852608\">\n<p>Wow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/environment\/pdf\/products\/desktops\/Mac_Pro_PER_Dec2019.pdf\">power usage in &ldquo;sleep&rdquo; is 15W<\/a>, that&rsquo;s really high. iMac is 1W, even trashcan Mac Pro was 4W.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/mac-pro-available-to-order\/\">Mac Pro Available to Order<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/mac-pro-2019\/\">Mac Pro 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Update (2020-05-06): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siracusa\/status\/1258113504499904512\">John Siracusa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siracusa\/status\/1258113504499904512\">\n<p>You can absolutely get a 2019 Mac Pro to sleep and spin down all its fans. Use the pmset command-line tool to find out what&rsquo;s keeping your Mac from sleeping.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/1258121582985138181\">Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/1258121582985138181\">\n<p>Ohhhh interesting. Sharingd and powerd were preventing sleep even though no one was connected? Turned screen\/file sharing off and then back on again, and now after about a minute the fans spin down all the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpr68\/status\/1258126456431038464\">Mat25<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpr68\/status\/1258126456431038464\">\n<p>Mine turns on the rear blower after about 90 minutes of sleep. It&rsquo;s barely audible but you can feel the air flow. I wonder if this behavior is normal?!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Cornaby: One weird thing about the Mac Pro I haven&rsquo;t seen mentioned&#8230; It does not support sleep. It can do display sleep, and the sleep command in the Apple Menu will trigger display sleep. But the machine itself will not support deep sleep and the fans will always run.I don&rsquo;t know if it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-06T18:31:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"21d47d86-d16b-42f9-a7dd-2c7028ccc1a8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-05T19:39:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIdR9htFrQvmn3SxwKMzBqA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1358,30,652,1666,280,2062],"class_list":["post-28858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-environment","tag-mac","tag-mac-pro","tag-macos-10-15","tag-power","tag-sleep-mode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28880,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28858\/revisions\/28880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}