I upgraded from my 2009 C2D Mac mini to the new low-end 2012 model and am very happy with it save for the insistence that it goes from "sleep" (pulsing white light on the front) to "hibernate" (shut down but resumable) overnight.
I sleep the mini when I go to bed or leave for work using Command+Option+Eject and it initially sleeps, but the next morning or after work it's shut down and hibernated. My old mini never did this with the same Energy Saver preferences (Computer sleep and Display sleep both set to Never; only item checked is Put hard disks to sleep when possible; nothing "scheduled").
I set the hibernate mode using "sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0" command and confirm it using "pmset -g | grep hibernatemode" (returns 0), so I expected it to never hibernate. I'd rather the machine didn't hibernate as waking it from hibernate does some funky stuff with the HDMI (it forgets the overscan setting I chose, but that's quickly fixable in the Displays setting), and takes longer to recognize my Apple BT keyboard and trackpad. I also run FileVault so I have to turn on the TV and log in to actually wake the machine...I'd rather just tap the keyboard and not interact with it to wake it.
The mini is on a UPS but I don't have the USB stuff hooked up, so it should just act as a battery-backed power port.
If this is a normal behavior with the new minis I can live with it. But I'd rather it worked like the old machine.
I sleep the mini when I go to bed or leave for work using Command+Option+Eject and it initially sleeps, but the next morning or after work it's shut down and hibernated. My old mini never did this with the same Energy Saver preferences (Computer sleep and Display sleep both set to Never; only item checked is Put hard disks to sleep when possible; nothing "scheduled").
I set the hibernate mode using "sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0" command and confirm it using "pmset -g | grep hibernatemode" (returns 0), so I expected it to never hibernate. I'd rather the machine didn't hibernate as waking it from hibernate does some funky stuff with the HDMI (it forgets the overscan setting I chose, but that's quickly fixable in the Displays setting), and takes longer to recognize my Apple BT keyboard and trackpad. I also run FileVault so I have to turn on the TV and log in to actually wake the machine...I'd rather just tap the keyboard and not interact with it to wake it.
The mini is on a UPS but I don't have the USB stuff hooked up, so it should just act as a battery-backed power port.
If this is a normal behavior with the new minis I can live with it. But I'd rather it worked like the old machine.