Temperature Monitor 4.1 review
DownloadTemperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers.
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Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize the values measured by Mac OS X in a large variety of fashions.
Temperature Monitor tries to detect all sensors on as many Macintosh computer types as possible.
Here are some key features of "Temperature Monitor":
display in a default window
output in a screen display in front or in the background of the screen
tabular display in an overview window
display in the menu-bar
display in the Dock icon
graphical display of short-term and long-term history curves in an unlimited number of windows
speech output
display of minimum and maximum values
export to text or CSV files
Moreover, the application can display additional technical information about your computer. Among other information this includes processor type, processor and bus frequencies, and manufacturing information.
The application can read out the data only if your computer is equipped with the necessary sensors, and if Mac OS X can access them without needing third-party device drivers. Starting in summer 2002, Apple has begun to massively drive forward the use of monitoring probes in the PowerMac series, the Xserve series, and in portable computers. Some models are equipped with 38 and more sensors.
Temperature Monitor tries to detect all sensors on as many Macintosh computer types as possible. However, a prediction which sensors are available in which models is not possible, because Apple very often releases "silent product updates", where the hardware equipments of some models are changed but the names are not. The particular graphics card, hard disk configuration and operating system version is also important.
What's New:
Added support for the 4 new iMac series introduced in September 2006.
Added support for temperature sensors in some old hard drives which are not fully compliant with today's implementation of the S.M.A.R.T. industry standard.
If rulers are enabled for history windows, the application will now always try to keep the position of the crosshairs, no matter how the window or the selected time interval are resized.
By user request, the old feature to display history curves in a scaled down fashion has been reinstated. Clicking on a new zoom button now allows to switch between a scaled down time axis, and display in full time resolution.
Output of readings has been optimized to avoid leading blanks whenever possible. This produces better output, especially in the Dock and menu-bar channels, and in cases where the user has selected a combined Celsius/Fahrenheit display.
The panel to display processor details will now better differentiate between logical processors, number of cores per processing unit, and physical number of processing units. It will also correctly reflect the number of currently deactivated processors.
Corrected a problem where the marketing name of Xeon 5100 processors was not displayed in the processor detail panel.
Corrected a problem where the application could raise a low sensor reading alert when the sensor was temporarily in a disconnected status.
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