To activate PowerNap in last year's MacBook Air would have to update the firmware
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Published recently in the sale OS X Mountain Lion support was announced at WWDC very useful function PowerNap. She is, according to MacRumorsIt is already working on laptops MacBook Air 2011 and 2012 model year and will be supported MacBook Pro with Retina-display soon. By the way, to activate this feature in last year's MacBook Air would have to update the EFI.
PowerNap - is a significant innovation in the new operating system for the Mac. With the help of the listed laptops will be able to perform certain operations, even while in sleep mode. Among them - receive mail using Mail.app, data synchronization in "nativeĀ» Calendar application, Contacts and Reminders, system updates and installed programs. An important requirement to work PowerNap is to connect the laptop to the mains.
PowerNap support constraints on models of laptops due to the fact that this function requires the presence of SSD devices. That is why work will PowerNap only on laptops from Apple, which already has a solid-state SSD-drive, ie MacBook Air 2011 and 2012 years (why not support the 2010 models of the year?) And, in the long term, on the MacBook Pro 2012 release with display Retina. In other models PowerNap support appears when, instead of the HDD in which the SSD-store will be set by default.