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Hardware Monitor is an application to read out all available hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. It can also store and export readings. The application Temperature Monitor is available for free, but is limited to accessing temperature sensors only. The application Hardware Monitor is commercial shareware, but can access additional sensors if your computer is equipped with them. This includes the following sensor types:
- Battery sensors on portable computers
- Voltage sensors
What's New
Version 4.95:
- Added support for the iMac (Mid 2011) model series.
- Added support for the MacBook Air (Mid 2011) model series.
- Added support for the Mac mini (Mid 2011) model series.
- Added support for the Mac mini Server (Mid 2011) model series.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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Hardware Monitor is an application to read out all available hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. It can also store and export readings. The application Temperature Monitor is available for free, but is limited to accessing temperature sensors only. The application Hardware Monitor is commercial shareware, but can access additional sensors if your computer is equipped with them. This includes the following sensor types:
- Battery sensors on portable computers
- Voltage sensors
- Current (amperage) sensors
- Fan speed sensors
- Sensors for pulse-width controlled fans
- Power and load sensors
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Steven P. Jobs reviewed on 10 Feb 2011
That's why I didn't give this a 5 star rating. (Though 4.5 stars ain't bad.)
Now that the bad is out of the way, lets get to the good. The price is right, the developer is rock-solid with all of his software, and the app definitely does work. I bought it, and now that I've got the displays configured to my liking, I'm very happy with it, other than the slow launch times.
(I prefer it to iStat Pro for a bunch of reasons that would take several paragraphs to explain...)
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Paladino reviewed on 28 Jan 2009
This beautifully done little work of art is well worth its very modest cost of, currently, €7 (a little more than $10 US.). I'd say it's a real bargain.
I'm now running MacOS X 10.5.2, and my original aluminum 24" iMac 2.8GHz machine has since been replaced by Apple when it was damaged during a repair, so I don't know whether it was a system software update, a hardware update, or the updated Hardware Monitor software, but my Mac's been running 24x7 for a week now with the new version with no issues.
So, I must say this issue is now closed for me.
Hardware Monitor is a cool app, but clearly has a problem with my new iMac's 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo processor.
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Juki reviewed on 19 Sep 2006
The developer just keeps improving it, offering frequent updates. 5 stars for this beautiful, extremely useful creation, and 5 stars for the developer...a real mensch.
Hardware Monitor rocks!
Anonymous reviewed on 08 Sep 2005
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Ge Pismo, with 900 mhz aftermarket CPU.
Nothing found to report.
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I found that this control environment NEVER froze, so I knew I wasn't having a hardware issue, but my migrated account continued to spontaneously freeze periodically. To see what was happening, I turned off the screen saver and energy saver, left the CPU always on, opened the Console log and Activity Monitor window (selected highest CPU usage column), left iTunes running, and waited.
The next time it froze, I looked at the Console log on screen and noted nothing usual was happening when it froze. Activity Monitor showed the iMac was idling at ~6%. Interestingly, I was able to connect ONCE to the iMac from another Mac and play an iTunes song, but multiple selections failed, and then the iMac became unresponsive over the network.
I read on a forum of another user who was having sporadic freezes and thought Hardware Monitor might be involved, but he couldn't confirm it. When I rebooted from my control startup partition, I noted that I hadn't yet installed Hardware Monitor on it, so I thought I'd try turning it off on my migrated startup volume.
That was nearly four days ago, and the iMac has remained fully operational and functional.
I initially tried just turning off the enhanced sensors extension, but that didn't help. My iMac ONLY remained stable with Hardware Monitor turned off.
Since it takes anywhere from 5 minutes to multiple days for the freeze to occur, it's difficult to diagnose, but I intend to reactivate all my usual stuff (except for Hardware Monitor) later today, install the pending Apple updates, reboot, and wait some more. If it freezes again, WITHOUT Hardware Monitor running, I'll be sure to update this post. But, it's never survived more than three days before, and it'll be four days this afternoon.
I should note I've been using Hardware Monitor for years, and it works just fine on all my PPC Macs (all also running Leopard). But it definitely appears to be having an issue with my new iMac.