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- kinesis8, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30*rolls eyes*
Just because someone says he is a Mac user doesn't mean he doesn't have a PC too. In fact, I bought my first Mac just 2 weeks ago to supplement my desktop/gaming PC. - mozzep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Or http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ Menumeters. cpu activity, disk activity, memory, and network information on your menubar... I guess the dock is more convenient for some people.
- MrMacMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11MenuMeters: Uses Less CPU then activity monitor, more options, overall better.
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ - kinesis8, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Very cool tip since I like to check on available RAM often.
Only thing is that none of the icons look like they would mesh well with the other dock icons.
(Wouldn't be a Mac user if I wasn't partial towards tasteful design right?) - birch25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7menumeters is awesome. easier to use (i think) and uses much less ram.
- mrdougall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ive been using this for a few months now, really does come in quite handy, although on my Core Duo Macbook another sign of heavy cpu load is when the fan goes mental....
- blake213, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I prefer iStat pro
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html - attention, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5having this open actually uses alot of cpu
menumeters uses alot less+the added benefits - mrdlcastle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6OK, how many CPU cycles are you wasting just to see that your system is either too slow or freakin' fast. I would recommend using the Activity Monitor only when you are trying to troubleshoot a symptom. Having it running all the time could actually aid in your system being slower than you'd like.
- r3neGaDe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7How about iStat? It does the same stuff and more and looks good on top of that. Ok, so it doesn't show in the dock but the dashboard or desktop is just as good:
http://www.islayer.com/ - jumanji69, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8This tip is really simple. First, launch your Mac’s activity monitor and select to keep the icon in your dock (if it’s not already there). Then, right click on the activity monitor icon and select “dock icons”. Then, from there, you can select from an option of 6 things;
- Show CPU Usage
- Show CPU History
- Show Network Usage
- Show Disc Activity
- Show Memory Usage
- Default icon
Once you select which one you want, it will change your dock icon to some sort of graph for that options activity. You can change it up anytime you want, pretty cool. - stevekeller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5wow, it looks like this tip was taken right from apples "Mac OS X Tip of the Week" section. only it was reworded slightly and re-posted on a blog 7 weeks later.
see for yourself: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/activity_dock.html - JohnnyHuh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's pretty cool, it'd probably work better if I didn't have my dock hidden all the time though.
- nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@juliocgrajales
Where the ***** are you going with this? You got so pent up in your Anti-Microsoft rage that you forgot punctuation, which would have helped in trying to understand what you were talking about. Now I'm not one to fight back with and egg on this whole Apple versus Microsoft and did they rip each other's ideas off. If I could afford an Apple, I'd buy one. I would be more than willing to learn the in's and out's of OS X but unfortunately it will cost me $2000+ to get a computer with any power to it. - randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Nice Dashboard widget that does this, but with a bit of style. This tip is sort of ugly.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html - drakino, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yes Windows does this too, with less steps needed. Open Task Manager. When it's open, it puts a small CPU graph in the system tray.
As far as the tip, I've been using this since it was added I believe in 10.2. My dock feels naked without it, really handy to see if something in the background all of a sudden takes CPU time. - 2SIMPLE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4有点蛋疼
- Dog_Paddle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3One of the first things I found on my Mac, I have mine to set RAM usage. You can also change the colors on the RAM Pie chart or whatever (I didn't find that out until after a while)
- biff198, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I would use it, except that just running it all the time sucks up some CPU usage and slows the computer a little. Sorry, but I want all the speed I can at all times.
- smackfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is pretty depressing that it uses 5% CPU on my G4 mini.
- mrgoat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would be more than willing to learn the in's and out's of OS X
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But sadly not wiling to learn how to use apostrophes. - mbabauer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found this about a week after I got my MBP, which was Feb 2006. I was unaware so many did not know about it.
- fraggle35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Menu Meters is also very good, sits up out of the way on the menu bar.
- JeffrySG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cool, but I'll stick with using iStatPro... just F12 away...
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another tip for battery life on the dual-core machines is to go to "System Prefs > Processor" and select single core mode, you can also put an icon in the menubar that does the same thing. That's something that anyone who pokes around their machine should have found but might help some basic users I guess.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Seconded. Best solution for system monitoring, on any platform.
- cypherz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm old skool. I like top, but you can't put it in the dock and still read it. :-(
- juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@nickerbocker
I know I am all over the place basically I'm for Corporations like Apple who evolve a new idea better than a company who copies an idea out right and advertises it as innovation... I digress, I did say a lot of things that I did not connect, Oh well, so is life. - valkraider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can use them to tell when a software build is completed. I kick it off, minimize it, go do other stuff, and then as soon as the CPU meter drops back down, I know the build is done.
- nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg down...I meant to reply to another entry.
- valkraider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2+1 for MenuMeters
- klaupacius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iPulse
- gunnarg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always been curious, and this is not meant to troll... but for the MenuMeters (or any other metering app for any OS that constantly displays CPU usage, RAM usage, etc.) users - why do you? I'm a total nerd just like the rest of us but I have never really gotten anything out of knowing at all times how my memory is paging or that my CPU is at x% while using a browser and listening to music. And I'm talking about your day-to-day desktop/laptop use, not something you use as a server.
Is it just for fun (I assume so)? Or do you actually ever take any kind of action when you see stat X go above or below value Y?
Again, I'm a big nerd at heart, but over the years I guess I've come to love the fact that the OS is there to abstract all of that and let me *use* the applications as I need rather than display a bunch of extra data I have no use for. I do pro audio work so you can be sure that I'm watching the CPU meter and sometimes RAM usage when running a large session. But all the time? Naaah. - irie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My Activity Monitor is a question mark * ? * in my dock.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I use the CPU meter so I'll know if some application or process starts going nuts, unexpectedly.
I use the network meter to monitor when and if the network is connected and what my IP address is, which is useful for wi-fi on the go. As well, it's good to know how fast the network is working, if at all.
If you commonly run into low memory situations then it's helpful to keep an eye on swapping and memory usage before things get out of hand, especially with Safari and Firefox browsers these days which tend to eat up a lot memory if they've been running for a long time. In normal situations you shouldn't need to monitor memory usage all that often; I don't. - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Actually, it's using more memory than any of my Dashboard widgets, and it's using around 2% of my CPU when the window is open. It may use less when it's just sitting in the dock, but obviously I need to have the window open to check how much its process is using.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is kind of dull and stupid...
What's next... a digg post entitled:
"There's a cool Unix command called 'ls'! Check it out!!!
I don't want to see digg posts on standard features that come with default OS installs... sorry but that's just not news. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can build your own widget easy. Just make a .png image of a cpu load bar and load the bar to 100%. Use as desktop wallpaper and you'll never have to wonder how the performance of your Mac is doing.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@gunnarg
It's useful to see when your system is taxed by a rogue application, or you can see at a glance how much bandwidth you are using.
It saves you from those stupid user moments when you think "why does my computer seem slow"... well one quick look and you'll know why.
I agree, menumeters is a far more diggable tool than some standard feature on a default installed tool. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yep, just checked. That's not the same thing. I don't have any way to check if Windows does have a system monitor for the taskbar, but the CPU usage graph that shows when taskmanager is open is not similar to this.
- unluckier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is a great tip for maximizing your battery life. It's nice to know if your CPU is pegged, by for example some Firefox tab with an obnoxious amount of Flash.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Don't you have to leave Task Manager open doing it that way?
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can't live without the network monitor from MenuMeters. Really cool lil'app.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Fly1m1, unless it is enabled by default, most users will need a tip.
- thanksgiving, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1thanksgiving is coming soon, we'll have turkey again this year
- econoar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Obviously the people digging it didn't know about it. You're not the only person on a Mac. Props to you being so genius as to already figure it out however.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2You're kidding right? It uses only a small fraction of a percent of the CPU—even less than moving your cursor over the dock and making the icons scale up and down in size.
- mrdougall, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I don't know if anyone else is the same, but my menu bar is almost at busting point as it is with virtue desktops, ialertu, vpn etc etc... I'd rather keep things in the dock because at least that can be resized easily!
- mottstreet, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Although it's not part of Mac OS and costs $12, I prefer iPulse from Iconfactory (http://iconfactory.com/software/ipulse/). It has a much larger set of monitoring options, sits on your screen wherever you want, and has cool skin options.
- juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Vista does it NOW!!!! you know why because it took them 5 years to realize that they were bought of by BIG Media and Giant Corps that don't give a ***** about what people want they shove what they think people want or try to manipulate your thinking about what you want and than 10 years to steal this one tip from MAC and another 2 years creating a beta version that no-one downloaded another 2 years paying bloggers to submit stories about how amazing Microsoft Vista is and then 2 years promoting it than finally its out and what happens its like a big wet squishy stinking piece of monkey crap fell from the sky and landed on tap of the beautiful blue ocean water that is the Internet and but wait there is a waterfall coming down strong to clean out the ocean its so open and free, its people who control what they want and not let big corps govern their every move and guess what is in the waterfall (I know long story) boats driven by warriors of the people one boat is called Google, another is Apple, Digg (of course), but wait there are sharks in the water (in the form of big media) to try to convert them and chances are they sharks will get to them but remember as fast as we brought up digg is fast as we can "not digg" digg but I rest for now (Yeah, I know I'm all over the place)
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