{"id":44318,"date":"2024-08-01T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44318"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:55:41","slug":"istat-menus-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/istat-menus-7\/","title":{"rendered":"iStat Menus 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Edwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What’s new? Everything. iStat Menus 7 is a full reboot, sporting an all-new design with hundreds of big and small improvements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Bjango<\/a> (version history<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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New menu bar modes, including stacked labels and values. New menu bar items, like Wi-Fi name, and GPU frames per second. Frequency monitoring and additional sensors on Apple Silicon Macs. More theme options and menu background colors. Fan speeds can now ramp up gradually with complete control over the speed curve.<\/p>\n

The time menu has 7-day and 14-day rolling calendar modes. Combined mode has been drastically overhauled, and can now display any item in the menu bar, with unique settings, and has more available menu sections in the dropdown menu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I like the new design, the additional configurability, and the extra information that it shows, e.g. for disk and processor usage. (It appears that my Mac is almost constantly using both efficiency cores.) It’s a bargain at $11.99 or $9.99 to upgrade. It’s also on Setapp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I hope that a future version will add support for recording process samples directly from the menu, as that would free me from having to leave an Activity Monitor window open at all times to quickly see what code is running when something weird happens.<\/p>\n\n

See also:<\/p>\n