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SMC Firmware Update breaks MBP temperature apps

SMC Firmware Update breaks MBP temperature appsSMC FirmwareI upgraded when it popped up on software update. Seems that I have been noticing it cooler snce the update. I was working heavily in Photoshop, Word, Excel, and Illustrator and I was surprised to hear the fan when it never...

Tags: SpeedIt, SMC Firmware Update

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

Additional Resources

iStat 2.0 (Mac)

iStat is the most powerful system monitoring application for Mac OS X. iStat lets you monitor every aspect of your system and features a simple yet beautiful interface. iStat's a simple yet powerful interface features fully anti-aliased graphs and a large assortment of customisation options. Change colours, transparency, window shadow...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, System Monitoring, Apple Intel Macintosh, Sensor, iSlayer, iStat, It Services

Software downloads 2006-10-04

CoreDuoTemp 1.0 (Mac)

Supervise the temperature of your Intel Macintosh with CoreDuoTemp. CoreDuoTemp uses SpeedIt, a framework by Increw Team.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Macintosh, Jonathan Pepin, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-08-31

SMC Firmware Update Redux

After I installed Apple's recently released SMC Firmware Update on my MacBook Pro 2.0GHz it appeared to break Jonathan Pepin's CoreDuoTemp v0.6 and Dr. Marcel Bresink's Hardware Monitor 3.6 CPU temperature monitoring utilities. After further research it appears that both CPU temperature utilities can be made to work again. Pepin...

Tags: SMC, SMC Firmware update, SMC Firmware

Blog posts 2006-05-19

SMC Firmware Update and the MBP (Updated)

If you're using a utility like Jonathan Pepin's CoreDuoTemp v0.6 or Dr. Marcel Bresink's Hardware Monitor 3.6 to keep tabs on your CPU temperature you'll be disappointed to learn that Apple's recently released SMC Firmware Update breaks these applications on the MacBook Pro. Apple's suitably vague on...

Tags: SMC, System Management Control, SMC Firmware update, SMC Firmware

Blog posts 2006-05-18

MacBook Pro Temperature Monitor

MacBook Pro Temperature Monitorthis is cool - I wrote a wrapper for this toolNice find. I wrote a little wrapper for this tool that seems to work. I need a cool icon for the big "refesh" button though. Drop me a note if you want it (or maybe I'll just...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Processors, wrapper, CPU, Apple MacBook Pro, monitor, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

MacBook Pro Temperature Monitor

There is now a way to read the internal temperature of the MacBook Pro, something no other software has been able to do to date. A creative developer has figured out a way to get data from the internal monitors via a kernel extension kext. To install the...

Tags: speedit.kext

Blog posts 2006-05-04