AppleInsider Staff
Build 12C43 of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 beta was seeded with no known issues, however it appears Apple is looking to improve operability of the Power Nap feature introduced with the operating system in July.
Power Nap enables Macs to stay up to date and allows for the automatic backup of data while the computer is in sleep mode. Time Machine and iCloud syncing are supported, though compatibility is limited to mid-2011 or later MacBook Airs and the MacBook Pro with Retina display.
The newest 12C43 build comes one week after Apple seeded the second 10.8.2 beta, asking developers to focus on system-wide Facebook sharing integration.
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"Power nap" sound great but unfortunately with 10.8 my 2008 Mac Pro (and apparently others too) has had constant issues with "Wake from Sleep." No fun.
Apples needs to do lots of bug squashing.
[quote name="AppleInsider" url="/t/152352/apple-working-to-improve-power-nap-feature-in-latest-10-8-2-beta#post_2183300"] Power Nap enables Macs to stay up to date and allows for the automatic backup of data while the computer is in sleep mode. Time Machine and iCloud syncing are supported, though compatibility is limited to mid-2011 or later MacBook Airs and the MacBook Pro with Retina display.
[/quote] The slide says MacBook Air (2nd generation) gets Power Nap. The article says mid 2011 Air does. The MacBook Air 1,1 came out in early 2008; 2,1 in late 2008; 3,1 in late 2010; 4,1 in mid 2011 and 5,1 in mid 2012 ([URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air]accoring to Wikipedia[/URL]). Does that mean that the MacBook Air 4,1 is the second generation Air? Or has the plan changed?
The most recent developer build of 10.8.2 takes longer to shut down than 10.8.1. Fix it please.
2nd generation means 2nd gen of the design. So the 2011 model.
Yeah, when not plugged in it seems to take a while to wake from sleep when power nap is enabled.... Seems to be catching up before it wakes.