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Is it actively expending power to poll the power button? That seems just blatantly wasteful, when a simple switch or transistor could save that easily.
I guess if it's keeping the OS running to minimize start-up time, that's a tiny bit more reasonable, but even so I can't imagine it would be more than a few extra seconds, since resetting the thing doesn't take very long.
It seems that this device might need a different power consumption paradigm since the actual operation power costs seem to be overshadowed by the standby power costs. As compared to things like iPods and the like.
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