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Marcel Bresink
System Monitor is an application for the menu bar of Mac OS X, designed to inform you unobtrusively about the activity of your computer. You can retrieve up-to-date technical data any time, like process load, main memory consumption, storage space, disk activity, communication on network interfaces, etc. By positioning the app in the menu bar, as least screen real estate as possible will be wasted. The program monitors your system continuously and is readily available when you need it.
If desired, System Monitor can also simulate the flickering activity lights of hard drives
If desired, System Monitor can also simulate the flickering activity lights of hard drives
What's New
Version 1.21:
- Enhances network monitoring behavior on systems where complex changes regarding network environment or network hardware occur at runtime.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
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System Monitor is an application for the menu bar of Mac OS X, designed to inform you unobtrusively about the activity of your computer. You can retrieve up-to-date technical data any time, like process load, main memory consumption, storage space, disk activity, communication on network interfaces, etc. By positioning the app in the menu bar, as least screen real estate as possible will be wasted. The program monitors your system continuously and is readily available when you need it.
If desired, System Monitor can also simulate the flickering activity lights of hard drives or network sockets in the menu bar. This is possible either in color or -perfectly integrated into the design of Mac OS X- in inconspicuous black-and-white. PC switchers who miss this feature on Macintosh computers can easily retrofit this function with System Monitor.
If desired, System Monitor can also simulate the flickering activity lights of hard drives or network sockets in the menu bar. This is possible either in color or -perfectly integrated into the design of Mac OS X- in inconspicuous black-and-white. PC switchers who miss this feature on Macintosh computers can easily retrofit this function with System Monitor.
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OsloX reviewed on 04 May 2012
System Monitor uses about 0.5% up to 10% when idling. iStat Menus only about 0.5%.
If the dev can fix the high cpu usage I would certainly take another look at it.
ATM .. promising but not good enough.
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I would like to see:
• an option to configure the font sizes
• an option to view the fan exhaust on the menubar
• an option view the infos on the right side of the menubar
Please add these to the update list! Looking forward to future releases.
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Jc reviewed on 13 Feb 2012
It has a concise drop-down menu for us to read. One point for this. But I have to say that its Preference Setting Interface is awfully ugly...
Another important feature seems missing in this version… It looks like the app couldn't detect the Fan speed, Temperature, and the Battery Life.
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The Developer responses so quickly. Now the new version of System Monitor can show temperature and fan speed now.
Thanks.
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iStat Menus = $16.00
System Monitor = $4.99
MenuMeters = FREE
The only question I have is which one is more stable and doesn't have a memory leak.
iStat Menus has been fantastic - with a modern interface.
MenuMeters is FREE can can't be beat for the price, though it has a more primitive interface.
I would chose whatever has the interface one is most comfortable with. I already have iStat Menus so I probably won't be purchasing this version - though the price is great.
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No demo = no sale. I can't review System Monitor, I can't rate it, I can't do anything but gamble 5 bucks and hope I like it. There's no demo anywhere… not on the developer's site, not on the Mac App Store.
Is THAT comment ok???
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Skapplin reviewed on 18 Mar 2011
Marcel generally makes high quality utilities, but this one lacks appearance and configuration features when compared to iStat Menus or even MenuMeters (for pure simplicity.)
I cannot criticize stability as I used it for a short period of of time. Not long enough to fully determine how stable it is. But while using it I observed no problems.