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Marcel Bresink
System Monitor is an application for the menu bar of 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, minimum screen real estate is 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
If desired, System Monitor can also simulate the flickering activity lights of hard drives or network sockets in
What's New
Version 1.30:
- Added new feature to list Macintosh volume names as comment lines in the menu for monitored disks. This helps users to more easily identify which volumes are located on which disks.
- Added new preference setting to display paging operations as transferred memory sizes, instead of as counters.
- Bar chart displays shown in the menu bar have been slightly redesigned to provide a more elegant look.
- In the list of possible providers for WAN IP address lookups, the service of "The Privacy Ecosystem" has been replaced by the service of Amazon Inc.
- Corrected a problem where the activity indicators of network interfaces did not work correctly when all activity indicators for disk drives had been disabled.
- Corrected a problem where the first digit of numerical displays of temperature readings in centigrades or of total system load may have been suppressed by the menu bar layout when a value of 99 was exceeded.
Version 1.30:
- Added new feature to list Macintosh volume names as comment lines in the menu for monitored disks. This helps users to more easily identify which volumes are located on which disks.
- Added new preference setting to display paging operations as transferred memory sizes, instead of as counters.
- Bar chart displays shown in the menu bar have been slightly more...
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6.8 or later
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System Monitor is an application for the menu bar of 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, minimum screen real estate is 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 OS X, in inconspicuous black-and-white. PC switchers who miss this feature on Mac 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 OS X, in inconspicuous black-and-white. PC switchers who miss this feature on Mac 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.