How do you switch it off?

[kebosma]

Hopefully in a future update of the SW a standby mode is included where also the airport and harddrive is shut down, because I think it will be the most expensive electronic device in the house when you calaculate the total amount of consumed energy per year....

[fryke]

Definitely not, kebosma. Your freezer probably uses quite a lot more. washing machines, even though they're not on constantly, use a little bit more as well. Even that 40W low-power lightbulb that you're using a couple of hours a day comes close. Plus: _Any_ device that has a standby-mode still uses power. Less than the Apple TV in most cases, but combined... Either way: If you care about power consumption, you'll turn things off completely, anyway, which for the Apple TV means you'll have to pull the plug, or give it a cable with a real switch.

[kebosma]

Don't think so Fryke, if for example the continuous power consumption of the Apple TV is 24 W, it consumes 210 kWh of energy per year.

If my freezer is cooling for 25% a day (because of switching on and off), it will consume almost the same (100W when it's switched on). If it is cooling for 50% a day (which never happens), it's only a factor of 2 higher...

A light bulb of 40W which is switched on a couple of hours a day (say 4-6 hours), will consume 3 - 4 kWh per year, which is not even close to the energy consumption of the Apple TV....

So the Apple TV is really one of the most energy consuming devices in the house if you don't pull the plug...

This is already known with other electronic devices which consume around 20 - 50W continuous (all the time), to be the most energy consuming devices, because of the 100% duty cycle that it is switched on.

[fryke]

? ... 40W used for 6 hours a day ~ 10W/24h; AppleTV in standby doesn't use 24W/24h, rather 13-18W from what I've heard, so the difference definitely can't be 210kWh/y to 3-4kWh/y. Seems off by a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide margin.

[kebosma]

Sorry, it was early this morning when I calculated :

40W for 6 hours = 87.5 kWh for a whole year.

18W for 24 hours = 157.7 kWh. (I assumed 24W from other responses in this topic)

So the difference is smaller, but stil the Apple TV consumes almost 2 times more energy....

[CJ MAC OSX IPOD]

Apple seem to not like their products turned off.
They hide buttons around the back of computers.
iPods are hard to turn off (slightly).
The Apple TV doesn't seem to turn off either.

This is the only thing that annoys me about apple. although. it is nice to sit at a computer and just wiggle the mouse and instantly it is displaying a nice screen and it is also nice not to see a power button .