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  • Awesome review man!

    I just install it... only thing I can't stat on my menu bar?

  • @coolshariq I've just noticed that, unless you are in finder, the menu bar won't appear... the window will always appear though. it's a bummer, but still a great app... frack istat menu, they were great until they've became a bunch of greedy pigs.

  • or you can just get speccy for windows and have 100x more functionality

  • Why do you have to pause and then scream GPU?

  • how did you get that red circle to appear when you click?

  • go to this if yo think windows is better face book (dot) com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=­118064584881572&ref=ts

  • iStat Menus is terrible now. It keeps nagging me to pay them with popup windows.

  • Thanks for the heads up bro. I used to have iStat for my Mac but was disappointed that iStat has this bug where it does not monitor menu activity when I upgraded to my i7 iMac. This could be a great alternative and will download ASAP.

  • hello mate, i got an early 2009 2.26ghz macbook pro and my GPU temp is always at 0 since i downloaded atmonitor a week ago. you know why is that?

  • Wow thats alot of customization options, its ova a million.

  • Curious, what mouse do you mostly use? like the one in this video?

  • how do u make it stay if i switch apps it goes away

  • check the box (always on top) this way it will show when you change apps.

  • Although I have not researched and compared all system monitoring software, I have to say that it does everything I would like it to do and it's visually customizable. Great feats!

    Thanks AppleSoldier,

  • why cant people accept bothOS as what they are? like really? some people like xp better, some people like leopard better, some like windows 7, just let peole have their own preferences

  • There's 3 OSes, but yes, people can't be happy, they have to fight eachother because they don't believe in other people having their preferences, I use Ubuntu, and it's great, that's how I like it, but somebody will have to say it sucks, or this sucks, or something, they just can't be happy

  • The way I see it and the way emeek also sees it, is that this Mac vs. PC is all for fun. However, some people do take things too far.

  • Im using it as well right now actually because istat isnt working, i use it to monitor gpu but i hate it compared to istat, i like seeing all my cores but it is a very good for monitoring

  • what about istat menus dont work with snow leopard dont work mine is working fine

  • Its having a menucrackers setting error, there are 3 different ones to choose from but none work for me, so i went back to the site and read not compatible yet with SL. Wonder why urs is working.

  • so what is the name of the program 7 minutes of showing the program but NO NAME.. wtf?

  • its called atMonitor

  • Does iStat widget work, thats all I use.

  • I'm trying to remember a similar monitoring program on windows side, although there are windows gadgets out there that monitor cpu, memory, network, and HDD all in one gadget/widget. Good review though Eric...

  • great app, thanks

  • im a mac user myself i love this program i just downloaded it its amazing but the only con i have which is not that bad of a thing is that u need to have it on the dock every time u use it its not a preference pane kinda thing istat was but its not really a bother

  • its kwel

    i am a pc

    but that looks nice

  • How much does it cost?

  • macs sukc xd

  • Thanks a lot for making this video Eric, I really needed this!

  • Will iStat nano not work in snow leopard?

  • istat menus wont yet they working on a update tho

  • Thanks. I think I'm going to hold off on upgrading for a little while. I have been seeing a few videos were people are having problems with software compatibility.

  • I gotta a quick question for you guys. If i install snow leopard on my macbook, will all my files carry through from leopard onto snow leopard. Just wondering cause i havent got my files backed up?

  • @barrieboy58

    Just buy a 32 GB flash drive and backup your files. That's the easy way to go.

  • TBH, I wouldn't worry that much about backing-up. I mean, you should always back-up before any important updates, but it's unlikely something will go wrong during the upgrade considering the installation probably would have been tested thousands of times by Apple.

    If nothing goes wrong(which will probably happen), all your files, etc. will still be there...

  • ...

    Also, if you're really worried about your files, I wouldn't take TechTalkGuy's advice, 32GB flash drives cost an outrageous amount of money, and for the purpose of only one or two back-ups you might as well just buy a external HDD for around 70 quid and use time machine to back-up. You'd probably be able to get a 2.5" 250 GB external HDD cheaper than a 32 GB flash drive if you shop around.

    Additionally, if you're only worried about some work documents or something, then 2 GBs suffices.

    EMZ.

  • lol I just got a 32 gb flash drive the other day. It was only around $30. Good price if you ask me.

  • I highly doubt that.

    Either your files will corrupt with-in the week of purchase or it's counterfeited or stolen, etc.

    Either way, genuine 32 GB flash drives cost substantially more than $30.

    EMZ.

  • I guess we'll figure that out when I get it.

    Hopefully the ebay seller can be trusted.

    100% positive feedback though...

  • Well, if it's from EBAY... XD.

    You could get a 250 GB HDD External from eBay still way cheaper than a 32 GB flash drive though.

    From a relative stand-point, a 250 GB HDD will always be cheaper than a 32 GB flash drive(well, at the present time), when taking in factors like the manufacturer, quality, etc.

    EMZ.

  • yea. you'll be fine. you don't have to worry about backing it up, although its recommended. if you have a spare an external amount of space, just store the more important things that you can't just go download again.

  • hey meek, have you found that anything else is not working....for example and motion plugins.

  • I'd rather wait for the SL compatible update, iStat menus runs in the background with no little icon needed on your dock, a big +

  • great thankz

  • awesome thanks man, i was bummed that iStat Menu didn't work under Snow Leopard, but this looks better anyway. Thanks

  • Thanks alot Eric!

    Great video as usual!

  • The vram means videoram :)

  • Aye, TalesofWar, Win 7 is turning out nicely. I do have a few minor negative views with it in regards to GUI and how the control panel is set up. Stability has been very good. I may of found a bug that made it blue screen, but haven't tried to reproduce it. A program did crash on it, although I still was able to use the program after it crashed. Back in the day when a windows program crashed the whole OS crashed, this is not longer the case anymore.

  • Indeed, since Vista, Windows is better at crashing (I mean that in a good way before people get pissy). When something crahes that crashes, not the entire OS like in the past. I still don't think 7 is at the level of OS X yet, but it's much nicer to use than older versions of WIndows has been and they've genuinely tried this time it seems, but then they had to after the bad press Vista got.

  • indeed when i first started using vista it was a breath of fresh air, granted it needed optimizing as although having built a brand new gaming rig didnt have a problem alot of people i knew did. Windows 7 really is a step in the right direction, but then i love osx, it just seems to contain everything i want without the excess bullshit that windows has.

  • By the same token most Windows users don't have a clue how to use Macs because they've been brought up with Windows and don't know there's something else out there, or they're too ignorant to give something new a chance. I don't know what I'd rather be. Ignorant or trendy. I'll go with trendy.

  • Either that or the only macs they've used are either ones in the 80's or 90's, during the time that macs were not as simple and user intuitive as they are since OS X.

  • I have used Macs long enough I bring up Os9 so it reminds you Apple use to be a lot worse, most of these users are stupid Intel switchers that think they are so awesome because they have a mac. its just a computer, use it.

  • Your not doing a very good job to win your point. Your pretty much just trying to bitch people out. I agree fanboy stuff is dumb, but having a debate is fine as long as somebody doesn't try to come and and call everyone a retard for using something. I mean you are obviously not a fan of mac, and all you would have to say is i prefer to use windows. Instead you shit on mac users and think they we make stupid decisions.

  • Justify much? Mac hater. Windows lover. Your no better than us. Your bashing mac in the above comment and this video isnt even a bash vid. HYPOCRITE.

  • Awsome... Thx For The Find....

  • I like this, but I wish there was a way to hide the dock icon

  • I just put this on my comp, pretty sick Eric, thanks for this review. I got the floating part as borderless so it looks seamless with the system on the left side.

    *Whispers to Eric* The SL is still in the Drive, I hear it making noise trying to read ahahaha

  • funnily enough I've heard of this but never used it as i just stuck with istat.lol. didn't know it was this good !

  • nice video man you really helped me i loved this video

  • Thats a cool wallpaper.

  • w000t everything works on my macbook pro again yay

    cheers for that mate!!!

    Yeah I was missing my istat but this is way better w000t.

  • can you make an applications video going over your apps?

  • Thanks. Never heard of this.

  • Very cool Eric!

  • also,

    CPU Temperature - 91c

  • don't worry mac fanboys will lie every way they can to make you buy a mac. now mac fanboys are admitting leopard sucks and saying snow leopard is TEH AWESOME. they are a bunch of hypocrites. emeek is one of them.

  • You're such an idiot. No one is saying that leopard sucks. It's just that Snow Leopard, as a new OS, is much better. Apple is not like Microsoft, which makes its OS worse every once in a while (Windows ME, Vista). Windows 7 is better than Vista, right? Of course. But is it better than Xp? Meh. What about Snow Leopard? Best OS X Apple has ever released.

  • Sure, then why is leopard perfect, but when snow leopard comes out mac fanboys talk about who garbage leopard was. you know I am right, so piss off. you still do not have true 64bit in all macs, fantastic. Windows 7 better than xp hell yes it is, but in different ways. tiger is still faster than snow leopard at gaming.  Vista seems to be word of mouth, the reasons why it sucks are probably user error. Is Mac os9 the best, hell no its worse than any Windows Os I ever used including M.E., Os8?

  • Who is saying that Leopard was garbage? All what people are saying is that Leopard FEELS slower after using Snow Leopard, which is perfectly normal.

    Windows 7 better than Xp? Not really, apart from built in security, Xp can do whatever 7 can, usually faster.

    Vista? User Error? What the fuck are you talking about, Vista is a BETA OS. Admit it.

    Tiger is not faster than SL at gaming.

    OS 9/8 have been better than the Windows competitors. Not that OSes were any good back then.

  • Vista SP2 is little different from the normal Vista. I mean, it's better of course, but it's still Vista.

    Leopard Launch had a few issues which were corrected with the first .1 update.

    Windows 7 is very little better than Xp. Happy?

    OS 8/9 WERE better than Windows. Windows at the time was even less stable then now, basically were like Vista to the power of 10.

  • no os9/os8 were worse, I crashed it 15 times in a day.

    leopard launch had issues and still does from firmware problems, to terrible security sadly worse than Windows xp and Vista and 7 combined. I had to force quit to get into finder in Mac os9. Windows 7 has improved I/O management and a smaller kernel if that is not improvement over Windows Xp I don't know what is. Don't say its a memory hog I ran it on 40 megs of ram, OSx failed, and said Darwin parsing error.

  • What are babbling about? OS 9? OS 9???? Get the fuck out of here with that retarded shit.

  • OS8 and 9 at the time were more stable and feature rich than Windows, but OS9 espeically suffered from a LOT of virus issues. It had as many viruses for it than Windows did dispite only having like 5% market share, which kind of goes against the "if it has more users it'll get more viruses" argument that people always bring up for OS X. WIndows 7 is an improvment from XP in reguards to usability, it's much nicer to use and is more stable than Vista and uses resources better.

  • All Intel Macs sold by Apple in the last 2 years are Intel x86_84 (aka 64 bit). Most have 2+ cores!

  • apple sold "Core Duo" macs well into 2007, so you're wrong.

  • You're an idiot. Improving on something that is already is amazing doesn't make the original bad. You Winblows kids are retarded.

  • your sucking apples cock again aren't you? don't call a flawed product perfect. OSX does not just work! dickhead. rather not be a stupid hypocrite that sucks apple cock everyday then have the right answer, the truth.

  • Apple has a cock? I didn't call Leopard perfect. Did i? I said it was amazing.. and it was. Moron. You don't deserve oxygen, honestly. You should probably go hang yourself. Just an idea.

  • you don't deserve oxygen you believe the mac ads like a stupid drone. mac fanboys don't deserve oxygen because they are so stupid that they can't work Windows. hang myself, your the fool not me, acting like some bad ass that uses a fisherprice computer with low specs. that costs much more than a PC. your a stupid ignorant mac fanboy in denial. pick on Vista all you want because if I picked Leopard it would be worse. bluetooth not working, security vulnerability in java in safari. etc.

  • Your joking right? I mean...wow! Java not only runs faster in Snow leopard and LEOPARD...wow...I've used Vista..it's taking 60gb on my MBP.

  • I never said java was slower on snow leopard, nice try dumb ass.

  • Fuck your dumb! I'm comparing the speed of something between Snow Leopard, Leopard and Winblows! And I'd also like to say Vista is shit! Look in the C:\Windows folder..it's so fucking crowded. Look the the Apple System folder...it's simple to navigate and file names make sense! Apple runs everything faster with LOWER specs...you need the higher specs b/c your OS sucks...I mean 1.66GHz to record HD on a Mac, 3.0GHz on a PC...that means almost all Intel macs can record HD...not many PCs can.

  • Snow Leopard does not run faster with lower specs than Windows because Snow leopard doesn't even run on copmuter that were made past 2 years ago. Imagine if Windows 7 didn't work with any computers older than 2 years, there would be an riot. Windows 7 runs brilliantly on netbooks and low specced computers though.

  • Snow Leopard runs on my cousins 3YR old white macbook, fail

  • Sorry, was just using the information from caseykavasch who said that all macs sold in the past 2 years were intel, in fact it's all the macs sold since.

    May 16, 2006

    Still, of the 4 PCs in my house only one of them is younger than 3 years.

  • Just kind of asking, is it an Intel Core Duo or at Core 2 Duo. If it's a Core Duo, Snow Leopard would have to run in 32bit because of limitations of that CPU being only 32bit. If your pointing out performance, I do have the latest Win 7 RC running on a 4 year old single core AMD 2Ghz with 1Gb of RAM.

  • ohh and that CPU is 64bit and using win 7 64bit as my secondary PC.

  • too bad not in 64bit mode. never get taken advantage by a 32bit operating system.

  • dumbest argument I heard in a long time. You are some stupid guy. I give up, Mac fanboys are stupid.

    would you take a single pentium 4 that runs Xp blazing fast but takes lets just guess here 4 minutes to encode a video. with a nice quad core it takes less than a minute with Vista, would you pick Xp, or Vista? I choose the faster one. this is the same deal when Choosing Windows over Mac Osx. choose a 999$ core i7 with windows 7 vs an imac. I choose core i7 again. Speed vs Hyped Mac Os.

  • Java itself is a huge pile of shit. No matter what system you run it on, it sucks.

  • Java was one of the first truely universal API's for all OS's that wished to implement it and it works more or less exactly the same on each system. It's bloated because of this, but it's also a very powerful platform if used properly. The Java vulnerability was patched by Apple by the way with 0 cases of it ever being exploited in the wild.

  • Its still horrible.

    Also that 0 case of ever being exploited is only if the person actually updates their machine. Not everyone runs Mac updates or Windows updates.

  • Yeah that security hole in java was fixed for windows and linux relatively quickly but I don't even think they've fixed it for os x yet.

  • Mac users cannot use Windows? Hahahaha! Actually, Mac users are the most experienced with Windows, and they have realized its huge limitations and went for something better...

    And who's living in denial? You kind of guys who say "I've used Windows for xx years and never had any problems?" PLEASE

  • I never said I never had problems Windows, doesn't mean macs don't have problems. they both have problems.

    If you could use Windows properly you still would be using Windows. that is were your XX amount of experience went. you also could just be a noob, a long term user can still be a noob. build a core i7 that will run circles around your mac until your mac kernel panics from its awesomeness.

  • I'm not talking about you, but about Windows fanboys in general. The fact is that it's not unusual to say that you don't have any problem with a Mac, but quite impossible with a PC.

    No, if you use Win extensively you understand it's limitations and realize that there are better OSes out there.

    Build a core i7. Great. Will that remove malware? Instability? The registry? The fact that Windows gets slower with time? Ops, no. Kernel Panic? Never had one, as opposed with BSODs.

  • Mac Osx and Windows both have problems.they are meant for different things, its not possible to call one better.

    what are this crazy Windows limitations that makes Mac OSX better.

    Malware? you seriously get that don't be stupid, stop surfing porno, if you have to, do it in a Vm or use a secure sandbox browser. instability? Windows has the highest uptimes on netcraft busted. registry? stop using crappy software than you will not get errors, don't use ccleaner either. slower from PEBKAC?

  • That's exactly what my dad said. Oh, and there is a reason to believe him, he was on computers since the beginning.

  • My friend at the local college just hired a work study to work under him in the IT department, he said this kid is a mac user, and doesnt know shit about PCs. He got a Mac because its trendy, just like 70% of the rest of the Mac home consumers.

    Yes, most home users only buy Macs because its trendy, the Ads mislead them, and people like Emeek misinform them.

  • You crack me up!

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  • "He got a Mac because its trendy, just like 70% of the rest of the Mac home consumers."

    Did you pull that statistic out of your ass? I thought so.

    I got a mac, BECAUSE I LIKE IT. Jesus, I don't care if you like windows or not. Who's to say which one is better? It's up to the USER to decide that.

  • Its no more pulled out my ass than most of the statements made by mac users.

  • Another generalization. Good one.

  • Coming from someone who admitted he would ignore factual evidence in favor of bias favorism, thats pretty fucking rich.

  • If its up to the user to decide, why are people posting bullshit videos "Windows 7 sucks",etc. the number of mac fanboy videos outnumber Windows fanboys. one theory is only way to justify the price is to tell everyone their computer sucks because their mac is overpriced.

    Mac fanboys are pathetic.

  • i dont know about "out number". I can find tons of mac bashing vids. More than anything else really. Justify the price so we brag? What are you doing right now in this comment? Sounds like your justifying things as well, lol. Your justifying the number of mac fanboy vids by accusing us of being insecure.

  • @MACRULESTEHCOOL sadly i have to agree with him. there are more mac bashing videos on Youtube, and win fanboys bashing people who have mac videos up on their channel. sometimes there are few mac fanboys trolling on windows videos but i see more hate comments on mac videos instead.

  • I would think so, since its being run by hugh dickheads.

  • You couldn't be more wrong. XD

  • Good information and video.

  • "istat menu dont work"

    OSX - IT JUST WORKS

    Hypocritical faggot.

  • @Hglazmv2

    That happens with any new system,

    You know that stupid windows vista, it broke everything

  • If Vista broke everything, how come I can run programs from Lotus 1-2-3, or other apps and games dated pre-1998?

  • if out dated software makes people hypercritical then we all are hypocrites.....

  • OS X does work, just an app for it doesn't because it needs updating or was written poorly.

  • new Os's can break compatibility in older software, and its not because it was written poorly.

  • well to kaosum2 you are runing them in a vm! vista can not run 16 bit porgrams, nor 8 bit for that matter,

  • 64bit has a limitation, you can't run 8 bit, and 16bit programs. Kaosum2 is running the 32 bit version. I ran wolf3d on the 32 bit version of windows 7 it worked. never worked on the 64bit because of this limitation.

  • shit I forgot about the 32 bit verson, but 10.6 will run 32 bit apps, and as well 10.0 apps, if you install rosetta but i can never run 16 bit appps on 32 bit vista or win 7

  • N0. vista had so many viruses and shit.

    it was garbage, like who wants viruses seriously?

    only microfags like you are too stupid to relize how amazing SL is.

    we have true 64 bit, u ahve fake 64 bit

    OWNEDDDDDDDDD

  • THOSE FEDORA USERS WITH THE 64BIT OPERATING SYSTEM, DAMN WINDOWS AND SNOW LEOPARD NOT BEING TRUE 64BIT.

    lol Jk

  • I enjoy my FAKE 64-bit!! RAWR!

  • wow, just wow, run anti virus software like norton problem solved, vista was crap, windows 7 is where its at

  • Why should a 64bit OS support the running of ancient 8 and 16 bit DOS games?

    This is why we use emulation and virtualisation. DOSbox runs Commander Keene, Wolf3D, Duke Nukem, and many other DOS games perfectly on Windows, OS X and Linux.

    A modern OS should not have to support applications and games which are 15 to 25 years old. Removing the ancient legacy stuff makes things leaner, faster and more reliable.

  • It never had too, just gave a reason why  it would not run, I run those in a virtual machine, or dosbox.

  • its cool but I like istat more but thanks

  • Thanks Eric for the Tip!

  • very nice, may just need to try it out.

  • That is reallllly sick GPU %? Damnn

  • i like it but the only problem is that the app has to be open.

    But its cool i mean i hardly ever turn off my mac so just hide it on its icon all set

  • Awesome! Thanks mate. I am assuming it's free, but could you throw a link in the sidebar? Not just for me, but for everyone?. Thanks!

  • Wow, looks very nice! iStat Menu looks nicer, but this is much more useful!

    Thanks!

  • just downloaded!

  • How handy.

  • Sick man

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