- ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW FOR MAC OS X
- ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW UPDATE
- ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW UPGRADE
- ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW PRO
iStat Menus works like this: you either get an icon or a graph in the menubar, and to see further information about that item you have to click to display another gorgeous black menu with many additional details (numbers, graphs) about that item. You can also set rounded corners and tell the app to display a “Edit in preferences” menu in each dropdown item. The first tab, General, lets you choose between black icons and graphs in the menubar or aqua ones, and I’ve chosen the black ones because I can’t stand colored stuff running up there. It’s even replaced some “native” items from Apple.
ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW UPDATE
Guess what, this update turned out to be one of the best Mac apps I’ve tried recently, and after some customization (because you know, I’m kind of a menubar geek) the app it’s now up and running there. I never really considered switching from the simple widget to another app in the menubar, but the new version 3 came out last night and I decided to give it a try.
ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW PRO
Also, it’s free.ĭespite iStat Pro being awesome and unobtrusive, Bjango also developed a different version of it, iStat Menus, which unlike the widget is a “real app” that sits in the menubar and allows you to choose which stats to display as icons or small graphs, animated just like in the widget. It may be a little scary and too complex at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a must have tool to understand everything about your Mac in different situations.
As Bjango’s tradition is a great looking piece of software but, most of all, it’s useful: when I’m doing something that requires a high consumption of resources like exporting a HD video or downloading many files at the same time, I usually invoke the Dashboard and take a look at what’s going on using this widget.
ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW FOR MAC OS X
IStat Pro is a very popular dashboard widget for Mac OS X that lets you quickly check on your Mac stats like fan temperature, battery health, RAM and CPU usage.
ISTAT MENUS 5 REVIEW UPGRADE
I’ve always done that with the iStat Pro dashboard widget from Bjango (former iSlayer), but last night I decided to upgrade to iStat Menus 3. But, I think that’s a given that I should keep an eye on its internal stats: you know, stuff like the battery health, CPU usage over time and memory consumption. I think that my machine is still a great one though, with its 4GB of RAM and a pretty capable hard disk: it’s been able to do so many things for me in these two years that I don’t see it being replaced anytime soon, actually. Maybe with some SSD and new processor goodness. Fixed an issue that caused the menubar time to stop updating.I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, and one could argue that maybe it’s time for me to consider an upgrade to a new model. Fixed world clocks being in the wrong order in some cases. Improved download & upload order to be more consistent. Moved disk activity into main drop down in Disks extra.
Added more customisation options in Disks extra. Added white menubar theme (for those with a dark Mac menubar). Fixed an issue that caused the menubar time to stop updating. If you want precise temperature readings and performance stats on your Mac, iStat Menus is a comprehensive and incredibly powerful tool.Īdded dark dropdown theme. There are also no preferences so you can't refine monitoring features according to your needs. Before long, you have a whole row of monitoring elements taking up the entire bar. The only slight downside I found is that, working on a MacBook, the Menu Bar can soon look very cluttered if you activate all of the monitoring features at once. To see a detailed reading of CPU activity, temperatures and remaining hard drive space, just switch-on one of the iStat Menu monitor symbols in your Menu bar.
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