The switch from coreduo temp, to temperature monitor

Question

OK, it seems more accurate, allows to monitor both cores separately, bit i miss the processor activity level in the menu bar, anyone know of a replacement for this?

Answer 1

Thanks for your concern but you can't save me any money as I've already spent it!
As for the rest of your post, you may be happy to blindly roast yourself assuming that all is well but others have a little more curiosity. Yes, the MBPs run hot but they shouldn't run unbearably so. That there are many who reckon their MBPs are way too hot and many others who don't raises the question of "how hot is too hot?". CoreDuoTemp, Temperature Monitor and Hardware Monitor (the full version of Temperature Monitor) are tools to help answer this question. Comparing results with others will either reassure users or confirm their suspicions that something is amiss. Most MBPs fall into the "well, it's hot but it's a high performance machine" category. Some need a little attention to the thermal paste issue to get them to this level. A few have even been found to run so hot (>100C) that the chips clock their speed down to avoid frying themselves, severely compromising performance.
The point to take home here is that some people, myself included, are curious enough to want to know about their computer's workings and readings from diagnostic tools like this most definitely do make a difference as to how we view and operate our machines.
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