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GTSystem Software
FastAndSlow is a MenuExtra addition that adds the ability to switch the Powerbook/iBook CPU/iMac G5 processor performance (in the Energy Saver settings) from the menubar.
You can select between "fast" , "slow" and "Automatic" (if your computer supports this setting). It is useful for example when your Mac becomes too hot and the fan starts. Using the slow setting it doesn't happen and will reduce battery consumption.
You can select between "fast" , "slow" and "Automatic" (if your computer supports this setting). It is useful for example when your Mac becomes too hot and the fan starts. Using the slow setting it doesn't happen and will reduce battery consumption.
What's New
Version 1.3.1:
- Added French localization.
- Added "Read me first - francais" documentation.
- Fixed a bug on Tiger 10.4 that used to prevent the FastAndSlow menu extra from displaying the current settings correctly when switching to a default power profile using the Energy Saver preference pane.
(Thanks to Byron Shaheen with MacPRO for software testing and for the French localization and documentation).
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.1 or later, Powerbook,iBook or iMac G5.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.1 or later, Powerbook,iBook or iMac G5.
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FastAndSlow is a MenuExtra addition that adds the ability to switch the Powerbook/iBook CPU/iMac G5 processor performance (in the Energy Saver settings) from the menubar.
You can select between "fast" , "slow" and "Automatic" (if your computer supports this setting). It is useful for example when your Mac becomes too hot and the fan starts. Using the slow setting it doesn't happen and will reduce battery consumption.
You can select between "fast" , "slow" and "Automatic" (if your computer supports this setting). It is useful for example when your Mac becomes too hot and the fan starts. Using the slow setting it doesn't happen and will reduce battery consumption.
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Paolo Tramannoni reviewed on 17 Jun 2009
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Anonymous reviewed on 29 Oct 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 20 Oct 2005
You will find my mail in the read me file.
Anonymous reviewed on 10 Oct 2005
This sounds like a great util and will save me from using Energy Saver control panel.
Appreciate any help, thanks! :)
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Anonymous reviewed on 07 Oct 2005
This is a free utility that allows you to do it without going into the system prefs. It is a menu extra item and makes it quicker and easier to do. It even states in the documentation that you can do this in the system prefs, but who cares. It is just a short cut to doing it in the menu bar instead of opening sys prefs.
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That is not the same either. You can switch between all the options using this, not just the two that apple offers. The two that Apple offers are not cusotmizable either. Neither of the options from the Energy Saver menu extra item allow you to set the processor to slow or reduced. Better energy savings setting, puts the processor in Automatic setting.
It would be nice if you understood how they both work before posting an uneducated guess on both.
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Try to figure out what he meant before flaming. The Battery "Menu Extra" drop-down menu gives you gives you access to four settings: Better Battery Life, Normal, Better Performance, and Custom, which is your custom setting from the Battery Preference pane (should "pane" have been capitalized? Oh no, I must be evil and a moron if I got the capitalization wrong!).
Let's see, that makes 4 settings. How many does this little program have? Looks like two from the description. Does it have 10 or 12? Are that many necessary for anything?
Reinventing the wheel probably isn't worthwhile if it doesn't need to be.
That is all.
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If you don't think it is useful to you, then don't use it. Why is it that people feel that if they don't want to use it, then nobody will want to?
Anonymous reviewed on 08 Sep 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 21 Aug 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 03 Jun 2005
lento o automatico...non è possibile selezionare "veloce"..l'ideale sarebbe un piccolo pannelo di preferenze che potrebbe permettere agli utenti di giostrare le preferenze secondo la propia macchina.
in ogni caso grazie Giuseppe..e quasi quasi anche se si è su Macupdate mi viene da dirti...buon lavoro 'mpare. :-)
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Anonymous reviewed on 10 May 2005
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Mfuhrer reviewed on 15 Apr 2005