IStat Pro System Monitoring Widget

The answer is here...nearly...looks like we may have a great system widget...
I just found this widget on Apple:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
"We get alot of emails asking about support for intel based macs in iStat Pro and iStat nano. At this stage there is no support for fan or temperature sensors in Intel based Macs in either widget. We will add support for cpu temps via the SpeedIt kernel extension in the next round of updates".

Hey. Yeah, what's goin on here. Is the widget supposes to show is temp as well? It didn't work on mine. Everything is working thou except temperature.

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  • Where I can download istat pro widget?

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    iStat Pro seems to be functioning correclty I have removed and reset it, but I continues to display 100% Battery Health. It also says I am 123 Cycles in, and I have had this laptop for some time now.
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  • Add new Alerts to system monitoring

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