Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/08 09:04, Jonathan wrote: I am looking for a system monitor for my current generation 27 quad i5. Not use one with OSX before. What do people use and which ones to avoid? I don't know of any to avoid, but I have used Menu Meters and loved it, iStat Menus and liked it, and just

Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan
I am looking for a system monitor for my current generation 27 quad i5. Not use one with OSX before. What do people use and which ones to avoid? Thanks guys! -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is

Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Jonathan wrote: I am looking for a system monitor for my current generation 27 quad i5. Not use one with OSX before. What do people use and which ones to avoid? Not sure what you mean by 'System Monitor' /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor is what I

Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Elliott Price
iStat Menus is a great app, as well. It gives easy access to RAM usage, CPU usage, Activity monitor, etc. -Elliott On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I use MenuMeters -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using

Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Jonathan wrote: Thanks Bruce, I will give that a look. I think 'system monitor' is a fairly acceptable term for a erm... system monitor, lol! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_monitor Only if you're a *nix geek, mainly, which this list is NOT full of...

Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan
Bruce, As a Systems Engineer, I kinda have to call things by their name, dodads or thingamy wont cut it in the industry lol! And yes, something much like TCPView, though now there is an all encompassing (almost 'all') application, called Performance monitor in windows 7. My colleague seems to

Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan wrote: As a Systems Engineer, I kinda have to call things by their name, dodads or thingamy wont cut it in the industry lol! Perhaps such haphazard namings could be called 'neologisms'. :-) My colleague seems to think that now my main computer is a

Re: Best System monitor

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan
On 8 Oct, 22:05, Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com wrote: Prior experience with Unix, Mac OS, and/or NeXTStep are all helpful My experience of unix is limited to Tru64 and a splash of OSX. Not a bad thing really. Really enjoying OSX, my experience was limited upto Tiger, then a gap and now on