Pros
Great quick snapshot of Mac OS. Shows, Computer temp, fan speed, battery health, disk info, network info, CPU & Memory info.
I personally love to use it when I hear my fans kick up. I use it to show offending processes taking CPU and memory so I can kill them.
Cons
Processes are not shown by default with Mountain Lion which is a bug the developer will not be fixing.
However, a fix can be found at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1407448
It's easy to fix iStat Pro processes for Mountain Lion
Change "PID|$1" to "PID| $1" (Add space before $ sign) in the Tall.js and Wide.js files. Then remove and read add the iStat Pro Widget.
(see above link for full steps, as review has limited space requirements)
Summary
Great Utility and easy fix for Processes with Mac Mountain Lion OS
Pros
really great easy to use ,, nd u don't need a lot of looking just a glance nd u would know whats going on on ur mac.. awesome
Cons
one thing only i want it to be bigger or an option to control the size of the interface . thats all,, other than that its what i was looking for i will never look for any other program. I'm all set..
Summary
HUGE THANK YOU FOR WHOM EVER WORKED SO HARD TO GIVE US THIS AMAZING FREE APP..
Pros
Can see ealth of computer at a glance
Cons
After a week, can't find any!
Summary
Covers everything from memory usage to individual fan speeds. Indispensible.
Pros
Processor, memory, fan, bluetooth mouse battery, wifi, and more stats all in an easy to customize console
Cons
You really can't have any complaints for free, and after a week of use I don't have any criticisms.
Pros
It has all the specs you care about in one attractive and easy-to-read interface.
Cons
None that I've seen so far.
Summary
I highly recommend this widget. If you check your Mac's stats and you use Dashboard, this is the widget for you.
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Every upgrade makes it sleeker and more efficient. This baby works and works well. It isn't resource hungry (which a good widget shouldn't be), yet gives a good range of read-outs. There is some documentation/info on the web site - but really it is very intuitive.
Very impressed by the consistent upgrades and all for free. I love the look of the interface and the range of screens you can throw up to interrogate your machine is splendid. For anyone who has not used it, download and try. Although the developer says it's only rated up to 10.5, I am running it on 10.6.2 without any hassles at all -on both a 21.5" 3.06Ghz iMac, as well as a 15" 2.53GHz Macbook Pro. I love it when a good widget comes together.
Pros
- I just enter dashboard and have all of my computer information, and you can choose what information is displayed
- Has more options than istat menu, and the graphs are much easier to read
Cons
None that I can see
Summary
I use it in conjunction with istat menu, because it has a couple more options of information than the menu's version. When I want to know what the processes are using the highest percent of your computers sources or want a detailed memory printout, I use istat pro 4.9.
Overall I recommend this program to anyone, but don't use it near as much as istat Menu's.
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Just tried this version but the fans speed does not display.
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I use menumeters for most of my system monitoring, but iStat takes a widget idea and beautifully implements it -- really a nice, simple, functional and easy system status monitor.
Now if he figures out how to use it to collect data on remote systems that are functioning as servers, this could become the 'system monitor' tool for the non-Xserve servers out there.
Not sure how one can complain about free -- people must not like free.
Summary
...usage.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I've loved iStat in the past because it gave me most of the same info I got from the activity monitor. However, in iStat Pro 4.x, the bars used for graphs don't display various forms of usage--nice, system, user. For me this makes it unusable because it lacks the info I use a system monitor for.
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