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Traditionally Macs have had an nvram setting that enables automatic boot when power is applied. It can be set from within the macOS power settings using the che
by ireflect 3y ago
Traditionally Macs have had an nvram setting that enables automatic boot when power is applied. It can be set from within the macOS power settings using the checkbox labeled "Start up automatically after a power failure". Once set, applying power will boot the OS (even an alternative OS like linux). Some variation of this feature has existed in all Macs since the earliest ones that supported software-based power control (~1990s era). I have not personally checked whether arm64 Macs have this feature, but I'd be surprised if they don't.
- grecy 3y agoOne of my favourite "strange" features of my G3 Desktop Mac was "Scheduled startup". You could set a time and date, then shut down the mac. On schedule, it would boot right up (as long as it was plugged in at the time)
- Vogtinator 3y agoMost PCs of that era had it as well. It still exists today at least for waking up from suspend. It's even exposed through WakeSystem=true in systemd timers.
- nightfly 3y agoMost desktop computers are able to do this, pretty sure. I've used this on an old Dell plus a UPS with outlets that only activate when the PC is on to build an over complicated timer for a lamp before