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Widget Watch: SysStat nano

by David Chartier Jan 13th 2006 at 2:00PM

SysStat Nano is a great little system monitoring widget (similar to MiniStat 2) that gives you a quick, birds-eye view of various system statistics. Your processor, used memory, hard drive usage, IP and (very handy) external IP, amongst other things, are all at the press of a key.

While SysStat Nano offers an overview of various stats (pictured), it doesn't offer quite as much information as the aforementioned MiniStat 2. Either way, it's a darn handy widget, doesn't seem to hog too many cycles and, best of all, it's free.

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iSlayer

Hi Guys,
Some of you have mentioned you like miniStat better....
Which features inparticular ?. We have just released SysStat nano 1.1 which has some new stuff but if you have any reqests just let us know and we will try and add them in

Thanks

January 16 2006 at 5:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Guillermo

Meh. I'd rather use Marcel Bresink's free Temperature Monitor (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html). He also makes a nice and cheap Hardware Monitor app (http://www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html). He also makes a nice and cheap Hardware Monitor app (http://www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html)

January 13 2006 at 7:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave Pentecost

Jason said:

"I very rarly see my desktop, so widgets or whatever wouldn't get viewed very often."

The great thing about widgets is that you hit F12 and they fly in OVER everything else. You don't have to go to your desktop. But I can see how you might like to have it always in the menu bar.

January 13 2006 at 7:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeff Saltzman

i'm with jason. menumeters would probably be the second thing i'd download on a fresh new machine (after firefox).

January 13 2006 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mathew

Here's an odd one for you... why doesn't my powerbook show a temp?

(1.67ghs 15 inch low def)

perhaps a faulty sensor?

January 13 2006 at 6:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jason

I've been using Menu Meters for a while. Really configurable, I only show the cpu and network traffic, but it's free, has a lot of options. And it sits in the menu bar. I very rarly see my desktop, so widgets or whatever wouldn't get viewed very often.

January 13 2006 at 4:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iDean

Which mac has a temp monitor?

January 13 2006 at 2:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael S.

Already on it. I do like miniStat2 a bit better, but I ain't payin' $5 bucks for a widget.

SysStat nano does just fine. Now if only iPulse would come out with their own widget...

January 13 2006 at 2:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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