The foregoing is inapplicable to my iMac 5K or to my MacBook Pro.īelow, all the sensor measurements on my 2013 Mac Pro. So I am stuck with small type that is unfriendly to my eyes and cannot be captured with retina quality in a screen shot either. The menu bar must be on that display (it is not a viable option to put a menu bar on the other display and/or to make the 4K 2nd display be the primary, for my own reasons). iStat Menus, the powerful monitoring tool for Mac-savvy users, has reached version 3.0. The very small type is not os easy to read on standard-res displays. With my dual display setup, the main screen is standard (non Retina) resolution.Still I would like this info in a window which would reside on my 4K display for the same reason all my palettes in Photoshop are off my main screen. Well, it’s iStat Menus for a reason so that is by design. I would prefer to have all this information in one window for two reasons: (1) see everything at once, and (2) locate the window on whichever display I want to, (3) unclutter y menu bar.One of the biggest new features in iStat Menus 6 is configurable. Been reading that the AS variant is slightly crippled, fan control and CPU clock speed only on the developers purchased option. 6 has been out for quite a few years so perhaps someone here has personal experience. I used to run version 2 or 3 back in the day. While iStatMenus has a wealth of information, and has a smooth and polished interface-it’s a terrific tool-there are two things that bother me which are peculiar to my own setup. A major new version of iStat Menus, a popular Mac system monitor for power users, has been released today for macOS High Sierra. iStat Menus 6 from App store vs directly from Devs. Maybe it can run locally only, but it seems to be designed for remote monitoring via iStat Server. Or, if the Mac’s fans are running too loudly or too frequently under no apparent load situation, check out the temperature of the components.īJango Software also offers iStat for Mac. Last week I reported on cleaning out dust to forestall component failure.Ī program like iStatMenus can help figure out if a Mac is overheating take a baseline when new or after cleaning and periodically check those temperatures against temperatures some months later (assuming the same room temperature).
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