Existing users, 
LoadInDock
CPU load monitor visible in the Dock.
Version: 1.00
What's the advantage
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: sflevinson Friday, June 03 2005 @ 09:37 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
Apple's own Activity Monitor does exactly what this module does, so what's the point? Just set Activity Monitor to launch at startup and set it's preferences to display CPU load in the dock. And when the load seems excessive, you can simply click on the icon, bring up the Activity Monitor Windw and see exactly what processes are hogging CPU resources. You can even kill a hung process this way. So what value does LoadInDock add?
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10.3 Panther has CPU Monitor - Central Scrutinizer--2008
I don't have Tiger, so perhaps you meant to say that Tiger doesn't have CPU Monitor?Wednesday, May 24 2006 @ 09:04 PM PDT
More customizable & visually pleasing - Tee Jay
You bring up a good question (and thanks for pointing out that Activity Monitor does this--I just assumed that Apple completely removed the CPU monitor dock utility with the release of Mac OS X v10.3).The main reasons I like LoadInDock better than Activity Monitor (I just tried out AM to compare the two):
1) Customizability -- LoadInDock has more configuration options than AM
2) More Visually Appealing -- LoadInDock looks much better than AM
3) Percentages In Dock -- AM doesn't show in numerical form the total CPU percentage (or kernel, user, or nice percentages) in the dock
4) Longer CPU History -- History stays longer in LoadInDock's icon than AM's
5) Less CPU Load -- LoadInDock uses much less of the CPU than AM does, according to the command-line utility 'top' (even when the main AM window is closed)
How's that for several good reasons to use LoadInDock instead?
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