What hardware monitoring tools do you use for you m1,m2 macs? I was trying to see if there was something as granular as HWInfo, but for mac? What options are available that are also free? Thank you.
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Best Hardware Monitoring tool for M1 & M2 Mac?
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Asitop which is a front end for powermetrics. Not as comprehensive as HWinfo but at least it's free. Suggest double checking with wall meter against powermetrics/asitop.
https://github.com/tlkh/asitop
https://github.com/tlkh/asitop
iStat menu is a really popular utility that provides a wealth of details. I recommend looking into that.
First beta - PowerMetrix "Display power consumption on Apple Silicon Macs"
https://github.com/TheMurusTeam/PowerMetrix
"PowerMetrix is a small app that displays Apple Silicon SOC power consumption and memory bandwidth.
It runs as a menulet in macOS menu bar.
Powermetrix is basically a GUI frontend for the macOS built-in /usr/bin/powermetrics tool"
https://github.com/TheMurusTeam/PowerMetrix
"PowerMetrix is a small app that displays Apple Silicon SOC power consumption and memory bandwidth.
It runs as a menulet in macOS menu bar.
Powermetrix is basically a GUI frontend for the macOS built-in /usr/bin/powermetrics tool"
I would like to be shown wrong, but there is nothing like HWInfo https://www.hwinfo.com/about-software/ for the Mac.
Nothing suggested above can claim to provide "Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for
"HWiNFO is an all-in-one solution for hardware analysis and monitoring supporting a broad range of OSes (DOS, Microsoft Windows 95 - Windows 11, WinPE) and platforms (i8086 - Xeon Platinum)."
Doesn't mention the Mac?
Developers need to eat. Without income there is no incentive to keep improving the product, provide support. etc.
Stats seems to be a GitHub release. This means:
1. You have to rely on the developer for improvements and support. No guarantee of support and if they decide to move on you are out of luck.
2. GitHub has had problems with malware in the past. I do use some GitHub software but only when there isn't a commercial equivalent available. That's not a guarantee of security but companies have a huge incentive to make sure their software is safe. If they didn't it could put them out of business.
2. I have found support for some GitHub products, when it exists, to be extremely poor. Even if the developer is responsive the support process is painful. One product I use requires that you post the problem to discord. Then you wait. And wait. And wait.
3. Haven't compared stats to istat, due to the above though.
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I did say that there is nothing like it on the Mac. I hope that includes that HWInfo doesn't run on the Mac. The relevance being that the OP asked for something like it and there isn't (unless you know otherwise). Stats, etc. are nothing like HWInfo.
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I read that to mean it far outclasses any other similar Mac app.