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To an age old ‘app’ I’d used on OSX for years… yet more refined, certainly more ability to ‘drill down’ and customize it’s interface on your menu bar to your liking. Graphs/bars/pie charts or circlular graphics, percentages or MB/KB - celsius/farenheit, fan RPMs and thermostat TRULY make this an incredible value without the need for separate apps, living both on menu bar and on your Dashboard (for the details) — MenuBar Stats has a quick ‘dropdown’ on each of the specific monitors you’ve selected to include on your ‘bar. Each dropdown includes very fine details from temp; GPU (integrated) & GPU 2, GPU heatpipe and GPU proximity. Each ‘core’ of your CPU as well as their proximity, the memory modules and their proximity even PCH Die/Prox and PECI CPU/GPU and SA-while measuing incoming air exchange, three heatpipes and outgoing air pipes. That’s JUST the temp. CPU, memory, disk, fans, battery and network activity — use ‘em all, one or some, none if you want but the detials you ‘need’ are there in front of you all the time. Your computer’s vitals. And it’s EXTREMELY lightweight @ a consistent 50 MB of memory in the background, using from .2-.4% of my CPU @ any given time and it’s not a ‘home phoner’ — nothing sent or received in last 24 hours, since it’s ‘birth’ — 4.3 MB reecived and 60KB written. Energy impact rated in Act Mon @ between 0.1 and 0.3 it’s not going to affect battery life off the wall and with real memory used @ 86.0MB, 20.0 is consistently purgable and impact in MB is 35-55, typically right at 50MB. Nothing compared to your Dropbox, G-Drive or Adobe’s desktop management and creative suite’s 350-450MB impact (each, consistently) leaving plenty of resorces for tasks that BENEFIT by having a tool like this still runnning and visible in the background. I pay my mortgage doing video, audio and still produciton — 80% of it ‘on the run’ so I’m heavily dependent on our Macbook Pros and iPads with their aggregation and integration with OS X. The continuity/handoff features are a God Send and After Effects is now a viable program to use on the go! Even transcoding video and finalizing, grading, encoding — batch, raw processing of 50MB stills, and 72 track audio masters, then re-masters (to a perfectly adequate 32 channels :)) this ‘tool’ is absolutely paramount to keep an eye on the computer’s abilty to sustain the load I’m putting on it, energy remaining ‘in the field’ as well as sneaky programs in the background draining my resources or bandwidth from my ISP :) — a 6/5 stars if possible. Would be cool to see more companies of third party software we used for so long with OS X or even OS 9 — come to the App Store for Mac (Lord knows iOS is just fine!) and see how their ‘apps’ do. Many of the former share/free-ware D/Ls from devs would most likey be happily paid four, five even ten bucks for …if anything, because of nostaligia or our ability to ‘use’ the app from famiiarity regardless of built in OS options new to OSX itself. This would allow the dev to (most likelyfi nally be compensated as I’m sure most didnt contribiute via ‘donation’ ware) continue supporting and updating the app. As well, where is Lord British? The Wolfenstein folks? My 5 ½” floppy days of gaming in ’83!?!?
“Retro” is certainly making it’s resurgence on iOS why not OS X? I’m honestly curious, completely willing to pay British to be ‘brought back’ ( I know the story of Ultima, ‘’Lord Brit” and the rest …) to life by an EA or UNREAL or an ‘indie’ with the pockets deep enough to rsearch the games, buy out the rights and rebuild them for our new rigs.
It would be VERY cool to take a break from AE and Cinema 4d/FCP X, 7 and Logic for 20 minutes and play Ultima 3 or 4 again (not ‘Online’ mega world) — again, while using THIS App to monitor my Logic, PS and rendering in the background, make sure shes able to take the load while I’m seeking the Avatar with my level 68 Palladin!
Great Job to Fabrice Leyne — an Excellent Job with MenuBar Stats - and intelligent, wise action to take (if you know what you’re doing) filling a ‘void’ left in the wake of OSX point updates and further (for the better, mind you — I Love El Cap! Best v. of OSX to date and quick, slick and fast on my 2012 15” rMBP as my mid ’15 15” rMBP — my 2012 iMac and Mac Pros — as well as the kids’ 2011 and 2010 iMacs, my oldest’s 13” 2014 MBA — all run as fast if not FASTER than the day purchased — and with MBS, you’re able to SEE those improvements with your eyes each time another updated comes ‘down the pipe’!

Thanks for the excellent tool!
J

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