It has a great display of resource usage in the menu bar. If you have a really old Mac running a very old version of OS X, then go ahead and get it. The original version of MenuMeters was compatible with OS X up to Mavericks and it did not work from from OS X 10.11 El Capitan onwards. Typically it uses around 0.6% CPU on my old Mac according to Activity Monitor. So little in fact, that you won’t notice it.
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One is that it is free and open source - how can you not like the price? The other is that is lightweight and uses very little memory or processing power. It is not the most comprehensive utility of its type and it does not have the most features, but there are a couple of reasons why you might prefer it to more modern alternatives. There are several apps that provide live system information indicators in the macOS menu bar, but an old favorite of mine is MenuMeters. You can see at a glance if the Mac is busy doing something. It is therefore useful to keep an eye on what it is doing and you can easily add activity monitors to the right side of the menu bar at the top of the screen that show CPU usage, memory used and free, internet or LAN activity, and disk usage.
You just don't know what is happening behind the scenes. MacOS often works hard behind the scenes on a variety of tasks, but you would never know because rarely is any indication displayed on the screen. How soon after starting your Mac can you begin to use it? Is it slow to start up first thing in a morning? What is it doing?Īt the end of the day, is it OK to turn off or restart or is the Mac still doing important processing or disk tasks? See CPU, memory, internet and other stats. If your Mac is running slowly, you want to know why and adding MenuMeters to the menu bar enables you to monitor system resources at a glance.
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