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Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by jdpedrie » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 1:53 PM UTC

lupinglade wrote: post #60

RyJones wrote: post #58

Any chance for a portrait orientation?

Yes, we are exploring adding this.

Please do! It would fit my preferred window layout so much better.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by singron » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 2:44 PM UTC

technotarek wrote: post #52

Slightly off topic, but fully related. Has anyone ever noticed that when your CPU is spiking on a Mac, simply opening Activity Monitor often brings it in check? Please tell me I haven’t fabricated this correlation! I’ve noticed it on several generations of MBA’s, with the 2020 Intel as the most recent.

I just keep activity monitor open all the time. I've noticed that fan speed significantly lags CPU load, so it's difficult to notice and react in time. The one that gives me the most trouble is mds_store, or the spotlight search indexing process. I disable indexing on basically the whole drive but it still spins up the fans every once in a while.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by WhoCaresLies » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

- 2mb

- no data collection

- beautiful

i love macOS because devs on that platform embrace apple's mindset

on other hand you check the windows store, and you get plenty of dotnet apps, even the simple ones are heavy on disk, 100mb on average

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by sgt » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 4:57 PM UTC

perryizgr8 wrote: post #79

sgt wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy, you just gave me another reason to want the Mac Mini M1. I have had two previous Mac Mini's (and one is actually still operational 24/7, despite being 12 years old). Such a brilliant little machine, and much better value than say an iMac as there are tons of good screens out there. I am wondering though whether it supports dual 4k screens at 60Hz. I don't think HDMI can do that, so it would have to be Display…

HDMI can do that, but unfortunately the M1 can't.

Not really - even if the computer could do it on its side, my relatively new 4K Dell screen does not support the HDMI standard required to do 60Hz. It does 30Hz but then I would rather use an old CRT.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by perryizgr8 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

sgt wrote: post #94

perryizgr8 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HDMI can do that, but unfortunately the M1 can't.

Not really - even if the computer could do it on its side, my relatively new 4K Dell screen does not support the HDMI standard required to do 60Hz. It does 30Hz but then I would rather use an old CRT.

I don't know what standard your monitor supports. But hdmi 2.1 can certainly do 4k@60. And most new devices and monitors are coming with hdmi 2.1 support.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by busymom0 » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 12:33 AM UTC

Not sure if it's just me but your App Store screenshots (great ones) look a bit low resolution. They look blurry on my mac's App Store app.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by lupinglade » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 3:23 AM UTC

WhoCaresLies wrote: post #93

- 2mb - no data collection - beautiful i love macOS because devs on that platform embrace apple's mindset on other hand you check the windows store, and you get plenty of dotnet apps, even the simple ones are heavy on disk, 100mb on average

And its a universal binary too, so probably half of that per architecture :)

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by FreshFries » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 6:26 AM UTC

lupinglade wrote: post #21

WatchDog wrote: post #13

Not on a mac right now, is there an alternative page that shows the UI, the screenshots on the app store in firefox are tiny.

You can see a couple of screenshots here: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/kprd2g/unique_new_...

It would be nice if you would add that you are plugging one of your own applications.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by sgt » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 9:06 AM UTC

perryizgr8 wrote: post #95

sgt wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really - even if the computer could do it on its side, my relatively new 4K Dell screen does not support the HDMI standard required to do 60Hz. It does 30Hz but then I would rather use an old CRT.

I don't know what standard your monitor supports. But hdmi 2.1 can certainly do 4k@60. And most new devices and monitors are coming with hdmi 2.1 support.

If the monitor is more than a year old it's probably using technology that is 3 years old, etc. Then it means a lot of current monitors have this issue. But it will improve, so that's good.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by Fnoord » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

throwaway744678 wrote: post #25

bori5 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MenuMeters works fine on my Mojave, but from reading release notes it would appear to run on BigSur as well. MenuMeters for OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later https://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/ and https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters

Confirmation here: it works fine on Big Sur too.

Pluto requires macOS 11 (Big Sur). It doesn't work on 10.15 (Catalina).