While these instantaneous display of sensor readings is interesting, Hardware Monitor’s charts of historical readings-which display the output from any number of similar-data (temperature, fan speed, etc.) sensors-are more useful for analyzing your machine over time. Here are CPU temperatures and graphics load shown on the Desktop: Each sensor’s output can be customized to your liking-name, color, etc. So you could, for instance, keep the CPU temperature in the menu-bar icon, the hard drive temperature in the Dock, and the fan speeds and CPU temperatures directly on your Desktop. Each of these display options can contain any or all of the available sensors. You can view sensor output in a multitude of places-in a window, directly on (or floating above) your Desktop, in the Dock, in the menu bar, and even in aĭashboard Widget. Thankfully, Hardware Monitor excels at presenting sensor data exactly as you might wish to see it. With so much data at hand, one of the challenges is managing it all-you’ll probably never want or need to keep a constant eye on everything. For something like my mini, this might make sense, as there’s not much in the way of additional sensor data available. Temperature Monitor to just keep an eye on the temperature readouts. If your machine doesn’t have many/any additional sensors-or if those that exist aren’t of any value to you-then you can use Marcel’s freeware
If I were to register the program on the mini, I’d gain access to the voltage, current, and power sensors on the CPU, as well as the RPM of the fan and the actual clock frequency of the CPU. On the mini, I can see eight different temperature sensors in demo mode.
MAC OS X HARDWARE MONITOR PRO
This seems like quite a lot, until you compare it with a desktop tower-Hardware Monitor on my Mac Pro lists a total of 55 separate sensors. On my MacBook Pro, however, there are 29. On my Mac mini (1.66GHz Core Duo), there are a total of 13 sensors available.
Exactly how many, and what they sense, depends on which Mac you own: On my aging 12-inch PowerBook G4, Hardware Monitor found 10 sensors.
MAC OS X HARDWARE MONITOR FULL
You may not have known it, but your Mac is chock full of sensors. Hardware Monitor is a utility that reads and reports on the various sensors in your Mac. Do you thrive on information-lots of information? Have you ever tried to diagnose an odd system problem, thinking it might be heat- or power-related, and wished you knew more about what was going on inside your Mac? Do you like attractive graphs with lots of data points that might even be useful at some point in time? If you answered yes to these questions, then you’re an ideal candidate for Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme’s
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