iStat Menus real-time monitoring Mac computer CPU, memory occupancy; Download upload speed, flow rate; the CPU, hard drive, video card temperature; fan speed control; the Macbook series of computer battery usage and other information, and may be displayed in real time at the top of the status bar out, it is a very good macOS system monitoring software.
iStat Menus Mac instructions
Open iStat Menus. When opened, it will show iStat Menus icon at the top of the status bar.
In iStat Menus common settings interface, you can select the default skin color, check for updates and other options.
On the left is the various monitoring options, there are CPU & GPU, memory, disk, network, sensors, batteries, time, what you want is displayed in the top status bar, you can put tick the corresponding item. Within each monitored item, you can also choose to monitor item icon.
In each specific monitoring, ACTIVE ITEMS state is displayed in the status bar at the top, if you do not like, you can drag with the mouse or touch pad to the side, choose your favorite style from INACTIVE ITEMS display, drag to ACTIVE ITEMS It can be.
iStat Menus sensor option is probably the most practical option. As shown above, can monitor very many options, in addition to the CPU, GPU temperature, the temperature can also be seen, the temperature of the hard disk memory, luminance information can also see the current power voltage, a battery, a sensor senses the light, rotating speed of the fan.
iStat Menus can also manually adjust the speed of the fan, built several options may be set different sensitivity, manual adjustment of the maximum speed of the fan. But I am still studying this function. iStat Menus fan program has high, medium and low speed, when set to "high", once the fan starts to rotate, it will immediately turn at a faster rate (default case will slow acceleration), this time will produce large noise, but the heat would be more rapid, open this option, some of the big game, once running, high-speed cooling fan will immediately, but there will be a lot of noise. By default, it is recommended that the automatic control system more secure fan speed.
You can select the top status bar battery icon style, you can also set power monitoring notification policies. Above, a warning may be issued only when the battery in 10%. iStat Menus power monitoring my most satisfying place to not only monitor Macbook built-in battery usage, it can also monitor link usage of a Bluetooth device, at the same time, you can also view macOS power-hungry, know which applications consume more power.
The figure is on my Macbook iStat Menus power monitoring of screenshots. We can see the estimated time of use information, such as the number of cycles. Magic Mouse can also monitor the power of my Bluetooth devices. Energy consumption monitoring applications can easily know which program CFL. Below is some default shortcut buttons, you can quickly open the Activity Monitor, console logs, and other energy-saving settings.
These are small to give us an efficient condition monitoring of Mac software iStat Menus Mac, iStat Menus for Mac on a Mac can be regarded as small series with a maximum time of application, and these may be of little significance for the average user, but for developers or advanced user, but still quite useful.