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Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - Rain - 09-13-2007
Is there anything built in already to OSX?
Or a program to download that will show me AMT of Ram in box, how much being used, etc.
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - Silencio - 09-13-2007
/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - MacMagus - 09-13-2007
My fave...
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
It's both compact and informative. You don't have to display every meter... I usually only enable the CPU and network meters, myself.
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - N-OS X-tasy! - 09-13-2007
iStat pro is the bomb: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20364/istat-pro
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - Rain - 09-13-2007
Had MENUMETERS on my old G5 and loved it.
Seems it wont run on my intel iMac............
For instructions on enabling third-party menu extras please see the documentation
Documentation doesn't tell me anything - I'll dig deeper later today
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - BigGuynRusty - 09-13-2007
[quote Rain]Had MENUMETERS on my old G5 and loved it.
Seems it wont run on my intel iMac............
Did you UpDate your old one to the UniBin version?
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10451
BGnR
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - john-o - 09-13-2007
You really gotta check out iStat. It's the best...
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - Rain - 09-13-2007
yes, uninstalled over version and loaded your linked version twice.
Same pop up message each time.
iStat looks good but does it give me the info up in the menu bar or is it just the large floating window?
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - incognegro - 09-13-2007
MemoryCell 2.0.1
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16989
"MemoryCell is a MenuExtra for OS X that provides a quick overview on the memory (RAM) being used by each running application. Install MemoryCell, and the memory usage of the foreground application will be shown right in the menu bar. Use this knowledge to restart any application that's slowing down the system by using too much memory."
Re: Widget or Desktop App to show RAM useage - viaripatti - 09-14-2007
I third "MenuMeters" as a great choice. I had an expert IT guy that I turned on to this freebie utliity and he just raved about it because it has that network function(which I don't use) for his server field; at a glance, he could see how his whole system is doing without resorting to the stock Utility or Unix code.