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DESCRIPTION
iStat Pro is the ultimate System monitoring widget, consisting of 9 sections which can be minimized, expanded or closed. It features detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime, temperatures and fans. You'll know exactly what's going on inside your Mac!
WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.7:
  • Much, much nicer animated section dragging.
  • Improved support for vpn connections.
  • Improved network connection ordering.
  • Fixed bug that could cause widget to crash in network code.
  • Fixed bugs with multi terabyte disk support.
  • Improved battery monitoring on PPC systems.
  • Fixed filter checkboxes with 10.5.4.
  • Improved disk and process icon caching.
  • Improved support for 8 core mac pros.
  • PPP Connections will now be hidden by default. You can enable them if you wish in the filtering tab on the back.
  • Fixed bug where sidebar labels could become stuck after changing skins.
  • Various other UI and code bugfixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:iSlayer
Downloads:108,002
  - Version d/l:6,241
Dashboard:Miscellaneous
License:Free
Date:23 Jul 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
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May 13 2008
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CRYPTO7  Awesome program... does it what it says, doesn't require too much RAM for it (but I guess that's relatively speaking if you have 8 GB) and it's the only thermal program I can find that has all the temps w/out installing some ugly hack or startup item.  
(Version 4.6)

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Feb 10 2008

GUNNI  In another comment on this application here, I noted the text and numbers appeared overlarge on my iMac.

I wrote the developer and he directed me here for a fix. IStat Pro now works just fine after I deleted the two files he suggested and restarted.

The fix may be found at:

Gunni  
(Version 4.5)

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Dec 29 2007

STUDIODAVE56  Tried to try this and the downloaded file crashes finder.10.4.11  
(Version 4.5)

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Dec 22 2007

GUNNI  Is anyone else running Leopard having a problem with this neat little widget? I downloaded and ran it in Tiger and it displayed normally. In Leopard, however, it displays as if it my monitor were broken. Other widgets display just fine, but iStat Pro is pixelated and difficult, but not impossible, to read. Bob  
(Version 4.5)

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Apr 27 2007

RINTINTIN  great widget, but please make the tall skin wider again (it's far too small now) and graphite should be dark-grey not grey-blue ...

thank you  
(Version 4.01)

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Apr 21 2007

CHLORAN  Thanks for getting the temp monitors working on Mac Pro's. The one feature I have been waiting for.  
(Version 4.0)

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Apr 20 2007
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E_COMMERCE  Nice update. A few notes:

- Temperature readouts are a bit buggy; when I disable certain sensors, either it doesn't respect that setting, or I get duplicates (for example, I disabled all heatsinks yet one shows up, and I have three readouts for "enclosure bottom")

- New skin is okay - why did the old one "have to be removed"? While the new skin works well on a Dashboard widget, it will look like crap on the desktop via "debug mode" or the iStat application

- Speaking of the iStat application - where are updates to it? It's been over six months while MAJOR enhancements have been made to the widget (intel fan support, much better memory statistics and reporting, etc).

The lack of an application version really bugs me, as graphs of CPU and memory usage don't do much good if they can only record while the dashboard is active.  
(Version 4.0)

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Mar 18 2007

SUMMERO  nice widget! too bad it says no sensors found for the temperature :(  
(Version 3.4)

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Jan 15 2007

NEUTRALZONE  Highly functional and useful.

It's just too bad that the UI has a choice of several garish, semi-unreadable color schemes. I run my Mac with the Appearance set to Graphite, to gray everything back when editing photos, iStat won't respect the gray and insists on its colors.

I hope future versions provide more customizable color schemes, or at the very least, a readable Graphite theme.  
(Version 3.3)

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Jan 15 2007

COLOURGRAVITY  Have you tried the 'classic' 'dark/mono' style?  
(Version 3.3)

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Apr 20 2007

NEUTRALZONE  When I commented on the inability of iStat to follow the colors of the OS X Appearance theme, I should have mentioned I was using the application, not the widget.

Speaking of which, I have no use for the widget and greatly prefer the application. The widget has the disadvantage that it can't be watched while I work in other apps. When I try to use debug mode, going into Dashboard to see other widgets rips iStat out of debug mode and it disappears when I hide Dashboard. Thus, I agree with the recent post asking why the application is so far behind the widget.  
(Version 4.0)

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Jan 15 2007

E_COMMERCE  Great program; looking forward to the application version!  
(Version 3.3)

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