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I like my Mac to be 100% clean and up to date. I hate slow downs and anything which compromises my system. As a result I use a lot of tools to keep my Mac working perfectly. One I am going to show you today is CheckUp. I have just found this program, and it is pretty cool. It also has one of the best GUI interfaces and effects I have seen. It is designed to show you your systems resources information in a easy to use manner.

Monitoring Your Health

CheckUp is designed to show you all of your systems health and performance issues quickly and easily. The program is split up into six panes. When you switch between them you get a cool 3D effect. The tabs are designated profile, system, processors, memory, disks, network, processes. Each tab does a different function of your machine.

For example the profile tab enables you to find a lot of simple and basic information such as IP address, Mac address, and serial number. System show you which drivers, applications and other programs you have on your computer. Processors is a very visual method of showing your CPU resources and probably the most fun to use. Memory on the other hand is pretty boring in comparison. It does show you how much memory you have and how much is being used but not by what. Disk is again very similar to memory although it does give a good break down of how each disk is partitioned. Network is similar to CPU, it shows you a visual input/output graph of what is being used, again very visual and pumped up on the eye candy. Finally processes is a combination of memory and CPU usage.

Checkup does more than just show you your basic system processes in a funky looking way. There is the ability to set up notifications, as well as run system tools and scripts. As well as this there is the abilty to remotely monitor a Mac by installing this program on more than one computer.

Conclusion

Overall I do like this program. It has a lot of good eye candy (which you can change) as well as being clear on what is displayed. You are not overloaded with hundreds of numbers or graphs. It is very simple. The only problem I do have with this program is that it is simple. I would like to see more advance data information, for example more customization options. As well as this it is a little CPU heavy, lots of graphics tend to take up resources. As well as this I feel that free programs like iStat can give you the same amount of information for free.

Check out this program out if you want a system monitoring software, it looks good and will probably impress any Windows users you have floating around.

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