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mpancha · May 12, 2005, 01:30 PM

Is there such a thing?

I had my ibook at work on my desk and was using it as a jukebox. The display had already gone to sleep, and all the ibook was doing was running itunes. About an hour into listening to music the internal fan started spinning up, and has been going for about 15 minutes now. I've only had the machine for about a week, and this is the first time the fan has been spinning this long and this loud. I've owned 2 ibooks before this and have never experienced this situation.

I'm wondering how hot my CPU has gotten... so....

does anyone know of a good app to monitor cpu temp/usage/speed/ram usage, and any other system information? And/or... is there w widget that'll do it?

thanks.

Randman · May 12, 2005, 01:35 PM

Menu meters for all but temp.

mpancha · May 12, 2005, 01:37 PM

the fan just stopped spinning, about a half hour after it started. The laptop bottom or sides don't even feel warm. I've had the laptop warmer than this before without the fan coming on at all.

Randman >> thanks, I'll check out menu meters when I get home.

anyone know if there's a widget for this? that would be the ideal use for dashboard for me.

Randman · May 12, 2005, 01:40 PM

Don't know if there's a widget yet. There's a konfabulator widget so it shouldn't be long for a widget to come around.

ManOfSteal · May 12, 2005, 02:08 PM

I prefer to have Menu Meters information in the menu bar than a widget personally, but a nice widget with the same information would be nice to see.

mpancha · May 12, 2005, 02:17 PM

yea, it would be nice in the menu bar.... but I'm on an iBook... 12" screen at 1024 doesn't offer much real estate

I'm already cramped with ichat/wifi meter, volume, battery, time, user account (icon only) and spotlight. I actually use those all regularly, otherwise I would have canned them awhile ago.

ManOfSteal · May 12, 2005, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by mpancha

yea, it would be nice in the menu bar.... but I'm on an iBook... 12" screen at 1024 doesn't offer much real estate

Good point, I am spoiled with my TiBook screen so I never think of that issue or perspective.

As previously stated, I'm sure a quality widget will be around the corner with this information...

mpancha · 05:45 PM

I stumbled across this today:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...hmonitors.html

doesn't have CPU temp, but its got the rest of the basics:

cpu load
memory usage
network traffic
disk read/write.

analogika · May 13, 2005, 06:47 PM

Wow. That's huge, that's ugly, it *must* be worth the price.

mpancha · May 13, 2005, 08:41 PM

agreed .. but its a start. If I had any programming prowess I'd take a crack at it... but sadly freshman year Haskell did nothing more than give me a distaste for programming.

Don Pickett · May 13, 2005, 10:42 PM

If you can get your hands on Aquamon it will do everything you want.

Briareus · May 13, 2005, 10:53 PM

The DashMonitors widget info can be displayed as text only, simple bar graphs, or that huge graphical mode which takes up half the monitor of a 12" iBook

mpancha · 08:25 AM

http://www.widgetdeveloper.com/newskin/widget.php?id=86

here's another one I found earlier tonight.

below are screenshots of Dash Monitors (perviously mentioned) and Sys Stat (this post)

analogika · May 23, 2005, 05:35 AM

wow, thanks. Sys Stat is great.