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Product Description:
Hardware Monitor is an application to read out all available hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display the measured values in a large variety of fashions, e.g. in windows, floating displays, in the menu-bar, in the Dock icon, by speech output or in history graphs. All output channels are fully user-customizable. The application can also store and export readings. The product Temperature Monitor is available for free, but is limited to accessing temperature sensors only. The application Hardware Monitor is commercial shareware, but can access additional sensors if your computer is equipped with them. This includes the following sensor types:
- Battery sensors on portable computers
- Voltage sensors
- Current (amperage) sensors
- Fan speed sensors
- Sensors for pulse-width controlled fans
- Power and load sensors
What's new in this version:
- Added support for the 12-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch PowerBook G4 models released in February 2005. Note that current versions of Mac OS X are not capable of refreshing most temperature sensor readings of the February 2005 15-inch model, and the February 2005 17-inch model.
- Support for temperature sensors of several hard disk models has been added.
- Added new feature to display disk monitoring detail data for Apple Xserve drive modules.
- Added new feature to display the number of charge/discharge cycles as well as the maximum capacity of battery units of portable computers (Hardware Monitor only). This feature is only available on Mac OS X versions which are capable of supporting this.
- History data and current sensor readings can now also be exported in CSV format in addition to text files.
- Because different versions of Mac OS X handle the sign of the battery amperage values differently (indicating that the battery is charging or discharging), Hardware Monitor will now display positive values only to avoid confusion.
- By user request it is now possible to launch the Lite version from the preferences panel of the full version. This allows a simple switch between the Lite and full version when the user wants to change preference settings for the menu-bar display.
- Fixed a problem where the option to display readings in Celsius and Fahrenheit simultaneously could cause an incorrect display of temperature extreme values in the minimum/maximum window.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2.5 or higher
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Download Hardware Monitor Version 1.5 (File Size: 1.4M)
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Download Hardware Monitor Current Version (File Size: 3.7M)
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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Good product - Version: 4.5, 5/27/2008 08:06AM PST
Krishman--2008
I purchased the license and installed the program on my MBPro. It is very detailed and allows for monitoring of a whole range of sensors. The downside is the interface which is not as good as istat menus which has supplanted HM on my mbpro. Good product all the same.
"Sensors Disconnected" - Version: 4.2, 6/28/2007 09:20AM PST
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Marcel Bresink Info
Dear Dr Bhattacharya,
thank you very much for your comments. However, it is unclear why you didn't use the built-in contact feature of Hardware Monitor to send your technical support question directly to us? We usually answer such questions within 90 minutes.
A Mac Pro usually doesn't contain any graphics card temperature sensors. It is also technically impossible that you receive a message like "Sensor disconnected" as a reading, because readouts can never contain any text messages. So something must be definitely wrong with your technical description of the problem.
I can only guess you are not displaying readings at all but the display preferences for a second computer. You may have used the remote monitoring feature of the application to monitor a different computer on your network via your Mac Pro. The remote computer is currently offline, but the Mac Pro still keeps your display preferences in case the remote system will go online again later. This would be the correct and normal behavior.
For further questions on Hardware Monitor please contact us directly.
Marcel Bresink Software-Systems
Customer Care
thank you very much for your comments. However, it is unclear why you didn't use the built-in contact feature of Hardware Monitor to send your technical support question directly to us? We usually answer such questions within 90 minutes.
A Mac Pro usually doesn't contain any graphics card temperature sensors. It is also technically impossible that you receive a message like "Sensor disconnected" as a reading, because readouts can never contain any text messages. So something must be definitely wrong with your technical description of the problem.
I can only guess you are not displaying readings at all but the display preferences for a second computer. You may have used the remote monitoring feature of the application to monitor a different computer on your network via your Mac Pro. The remote computer is currently offline, but the Mac Pro still keeps your display preferences in case the remote system will go online again later. This would be the correct and normal behavior.
For further questions on Hardware Monitor please contact us directly.
Marcel Bresink Software-Systems
Customer Care
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad
So my question to fellow users of Hardware Monitor, or even the developer, is there a way I can use the app to keep a close eye on the GPU to alert me to potential problems developing, given that Apple have only extended the warranty for affected machines by 12 months.
Obviously I can check GPU temp and load, but are there likely to be any telltale patterns over time, for defective chips?
Many thanks in advance.