SlimBatteryMonitor for Mac

User Reviews

• It works as claimed.

  galantiNovember 6, 2009

  Pros

  Helpful utility.

  Cons

  None that I can find.

  Summary

  Helps me run the NEW battery in my MacBook down before recharging Used to run it "on battery" for a bit then recharge. The original battery would be fine until it got to the 70-75% level and then quit. Not good when planning a long trip.

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• Simple and works

  AMCarter3October 7, 2009

  Pros

  Provides relatively accurate indication of battery life. Sits in the menu bar.

  Cons

  There really isn't anything to not like about this.

  Summary

  Nice utility.

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• Excellent Menubar Addition!

  cdmagfoxAugust 19, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This application is excellent! It cuts the menubar space by half and is very customizeable; I easily changed the color of the icon outline from black to blue. I would suggest moving the application from the desktop into the Applications folder before installing. "Calculating remaining time" does NOT work as it did NOT with Apple's battery monitor, since I am using Mac OS X 10.4.7; otherwise this app works great! Thanks.

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• Spectacular App

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionAugust 18, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is a great app. Highly configurable so you can tweak it just the way you like it. Another "why didn't Apple do this?" application.

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• Great little utility; request 2 changes

  mhuckaFebruary 11, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's terrific and I would use it in my menu bar, but like other people, I wish (1) you command-mouse-click drag it to another position in the menu bar (like other utilities like MenuMeters) and (2) lower memory consumption. The latter is probably going to be really hard, because I've never seen a GUI app on the Mac use less than 200+ MB of VM. Still, I keep hoping... Were it not for those two issues, I would keep this in my menu bar and pay a donation to the author. It's otherwise a really cool utility.

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• Well done!

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionNovember 16, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Simple and easy to use, lots of useful feature (like different colors and text for different status). Great freeware, thanks!

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• Great freeware!

  JedihSeptember 16, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I didn't know about this little freeware until I got a tips from a page on MacFixit and now after using it I can see how much better this is compared to Apples menu. There's only one small glitch in it and that is when SlimBatteryMonitor are loaded in between two other menu items the time indicator gets cutted and shows (...) instead of the correct time remaining. The procent indicator works well though! It would be great if I could move this in the menu or if it could be loaded as the last menu item to the left.

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• Works with Dual

  Asta the DogApril 8, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Thank you. Excellent product. Works with dual battery G3 powerbooks and correctly shows the twin batteries instead of reversing them, as Apple's energy saver pref.pane does.

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• Revised

  lanej0February 4, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The author must have either made revisions, or the previous posters are smoking something. The window they're describing has an OK button in it. This app looks great, good work.

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• Major problems

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionFebruary 4, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Upon launching the program, a window comes up describing the program. However, there is absolutely no way to close this window. No OK button, no close widget, nothing. And with this window up, clicking on the icon in the menu bar just makes the alert sound. The only way to get rid of it was to kill the process. This might be an ok application, but behavior like this has dropped it from my hard drive.

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