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iStat menus 1.2 monitors your Mac's innards

by Mike Schramm Nov 2nd 2007 at 10:00AM



I'm definitely a big fan of iSlayer's iStat Pro widget. Whenever my older Powerbook acts a little weird, I can just pull up the Dashboard and tell at a glance what's going wrong ("Oh my, the CPU is running at 150 degrees again. Time to quit a few apps"). Now they've sent word that iStat menus, an even bigger and better stats program available to sit on the menubar, has hit version 1.2.

New to this version is process monitoring, better temperature and fan support in G4 Powerbooks (like mine), and a disk activity graph that let's you monitor disk performance over time. For keeping an eye on what's happening under your Mac's hood, there's almost nothing better, and all the iStat stuff is free.

Of course, if you do use one of their apps, make sure to send them some cash to help them keep up the good work. Always support good software, people. Just like NPR, if you don't support it, you'll lose it.

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Jeremy

Looks really nice, but honestly, "8 separate and highly configurable menu extras" is exactly what my menu bar DOESN'T need. They probably won't even fit.

Why does every developer feel the need to put an icon up there????

November 02 2007 at 4:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

This is great. I never knew that this was an option. Just what I need. Something else to put into my menu bar. Thanks TUAW.

November 02 2007 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

This is great. I never knew that this was an option. Just what I need. Something else to put into my menu bar. Thanks TUAW.

November 02 2007 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

Has anyone else noticed that Leopard is running cooler than Tiger on the Intel macs? I'm assuming that it's due to better use of the dual core architecture and optimized 64bit code for the OS and core Apps?

November 02 2007 at 1:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Owens

sorry about the unfortunate remark about far left npr; I refuse to fund it so it will go away. I am surprised George Soros hasn't bought it yet.

November 02 2007 at 11:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh Wardell

iStat Menus is prettier, but it still doesn't show number of accesses to VM like MenuMeters does. I use that all the time when something seems to freeze up--if that number is very high I know it is just paging from VM.

November 02 2007 at 10:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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First? Anyway, just installed the update. I loved the widget, but it's even better to have the info right on the menu bar. Support NPR!!!!

November 02 2007 at 10:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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