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xScan (formerly CheckUp) has been specifically designed to help you monitor the behavior and health of your Mac in a simple and straightforward manner. This is done in real time. No more needing to go 'beneath the hood' to find out all those technical details that could be affecting your system. We've done all the work for you!
xScan is able to detect common problems with a Mac and OS X, and will also provide useful tips to help you fix them. It's as easy as looking at the dashboard of your car!
The first thing you will likely notice about xScan is the minimal
xScan is able to detect common problems with a Mac and OS X, and will also provide useful tips to help you fix them. It's as easy as looking at the dashboard of your car!
The first thing you will likely notice about xScan is the minimal
What's New
Version 3.2.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
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xScan (formerly CheckUp) has been specifically designed to help you monitor the behavior and health of your Mac in a simple and straightforward manner. This is done in real time. No more needing to go 'beneath the hood' to find out all those technical details that could be affecting your system. We've done all the work for you!
xScan is able to detect common problems with a Mac and OS X, and will also provide useful tips to help you fix them. It's as easy as looking at the dashboard of your car!
The first thing you will likely notice about xScan is the minimal interface. Upon opening xScan, you will be greeted by a simple black Toolbar down the right-hand side of your screen. That is all. This enables you to manage your Mac's system with as little interruption to your work as possible. From the preferences, you can control which side of the screen the Toolbar appears on, and also adjust the Toolbar's Transparency.
A powerful feature of xScan is its ability to alert you to potential problems with your system. xScan is able to detect any hardware failures on your Mac. Recent Macs have sensors integrated into the hardware that xScan uses to assess the state of your system. It can also detect the health of all connected disks and will check if there are any major issues.
Thus, xScan is a great solution in keeping an eye on your Mac!
xScan is able to detect common problems with a Mac and OS X, and will also provide useful tips to help you fix them. It's as easy as looking at the dashboard of your car!
The first thing you will likely notice about xScan is the minimal interface. Upon opening xScan, you will be greeted by a simple black Toolbar down the right-hand side of your screen. That is all. This enables you to manage your Mac's system with as little interruption to your work as possible. From the preferences, you can control which side of the screen the Toolbar appears on, and also adjust the Toolbar's Transparency.
A powerful feature of xScan is its ability to alert you to potential problems with your system. xScan is able to detect any hardware failures on your Mac. Recent Macs have sensors integrated into the hardware that xScan uses to assess the state of your system. It can also detect the health of all connected disks and will check if there are any major issues.
Thus, xScan is a great solution in keeping an eye on your Mac!
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Larrybbaker reviewed on 30 Mar 2012
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Vinkri reviewed on 18 Mar 2012
Anyway, some things have changed since my first comment:
- price dropped from almost 30 bucks to less than 20
- an update introduced some functions to optimize your system
What's good:
- a great interface
- very easy to use and to understand
- the alert system is efficient
What's not so good:
- MacOS X internal tools (system pref, activity monitor...) give the same amount of information
- Alerts are not useful for every user. And in case of an issue, how do you react?
So if you believe you need Xscan, you probably need a more complete tool, like Techtool Pro.
If you need that kind of stuff, I assume you don't really care about the ease of use and the interface.
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VERSION 3.0.3
- Improved support of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Bugs fixed
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First is that the app seems unable to detect network activity on my 2008 Mac Pro. The built-in gigabit ethernet (en0) is active but Checkup shows zero activity so perhaps there's an issue to be sorted there? Second, I have two GPUs in my Mac but Checkup only detects one of them. Also on my 3-monitor setup, the non-extended view of any category opens on one monitor #2 and then a second later jumps to monitor #1.
Other things are really just minor niggles or suggestions, like the sidebar control. It would be nice if there was an option (when hiding the sidebar) to put the control in the menu bar rather than forcing you to have the gadget at the bottom left/right of your screen. That could also be extended by having the menu bar icon glow orange if there's an alert. Also in the non-extended view for hard disks, it would be nice to be able to choose between physical device view or logical device view in the preferences. I know you can default it to opening in extended view but it would be nice to have the 'narrow' view showing logical volumes rather than physical ones. Possibly more of an issue for me as I have 4 internal & 2 external drives with a total of 9 partitions. Incidentally, I notice it doesn't scan NAS drives, but that's more of a 'nice to have'.
Overall a well thought out and useful app and I'll be interested to see how it develops.
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Old_guy reviewed on 24 Jul 2011
On a side note: the system resources it consumes is min blowing. Can this be addressed?
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Tayker reviewed on 01 Jul 2011
First off, one big plus that needs to be addressed at the start:
"Free upgrades for a lifetime"
People might scoff at the dollar-euro conversion, but over the years it will pay for itself. I originally bought CheckUp 2 in 2009 and my app ID worked like a charm today for v.3. Cost comparison, I would say that it would eventually work out to only a few dollars over the forthcoming years.
That being said, I think this is the perfect app to compliment Drive Genius or TechTool Pro like apps.
I would say this is like Apple's crappy System Profiler, but on steroids and way better; finding specific information isn't in a convoluted list, and you can export it in PDF format. I can keep those PDFs on my iPad for reference for future use should I have any issues with my Macs. The export format looks like it would fit cleanly on Apple's website. The only export issue I'm having is the 32-bit and 64-bit icons are "?'s" on the PDF.
The Network window is great because it includes apps and the IP/resolved names they're connected to, which beats using Terminal for that info.
The expanded Processes window is great because of the info icon next to each process. Clicking it will give users info about the what the process does.
What IT professional wouldn't love the expanded Data window? All important data from drivers to preference panes, and more, all in one clean window. If I need to secure a Mac for secure government use then this made my life a lot easier.
I will admit that I was initially reluctant to upgrade to v.3 because v.2 reminded me of those faux Windows malware utilities that are supposed to fix issues instead of plague your system more - which it wasn't, I just hated having to go into Launch folders to stop one of its associated files from loading and slow my Mac down.
Final thoughts: Can't beat the free updates for life, the clean UI, the ease of use, and export options. If Apple didn't neglect a lot of their utilities then this is one I could see them creating. Unfortunately for them adnX did it.
UGH! I sound like an annoying fawning ad.
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J'ai 8 Go de memoire et CheckUp 2,7 me recommande 512 Mo !
Pas d'info sur la température des CPU...
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So it went to the trash.
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I have been using Default Folder X for years, and it is pretty reliable. So to have to disable one of my apps which I want to be running all the time, in order to run the checkup program occasionally (since I do not want the background system checkup program running all the time) seems backwards.
Shouldn't CheckUp itself be also making some kind of code changes to ensure compatibility with long-standing Macintosh applications?
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I am the type that likes to know the details and reasons on tech issues... ;)
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(MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo 1.5 Go RAM - Leopard 10.5.1 - French)
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Technical support at app4mac was quick to reply to my inquiry (and in my language: French!).
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Looks cool though,I would like to see it working someday!
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