Meaning of yellow LED on Mac Mini 2020 M1

Sorry but I'm confused by the terms you are using and forgive me because I'm used to working with a MacBook. I never touch the power switch and I only experience two different states:

• Mac mini awake and front light white

• Mac mini asleep and front light white

So I am still confused because earlier you wrote that the light is "dim" when unit is sleeping. I don't see any change in the light at all when the unit is sleeping but as I wrote initially, sometimes the light does appear to me to be yellow. Maybe that is the same as what you mean by "dim" but I still don't know what state that represents.

Hope that makes sense.

OK, now that Mac is sleeping and I do think the light may be "dim." It's the first Mac mini I've owned and I guess the earlier ones would have a pulsating light when sleeping. I would've preferred that (more obvious) and not sure why they changed it but it's a minor detail in an otherwise wonderful piece of equipment.

So I guess what I was calling a “yellow light” was in fact the dim light and thus represents sleeping ? Because if that is true I really need to research why it mostly stays powered on.

Anyway, thanks for the help!