Activity Monitor Dock Icon with QC i7 iMac: Only get one CPU bar...
I leave the Acitvity Monitor running all the time with my CPU Usage as the dock icon. I like to see the cores working away. On my Quad MacPro at work I have four blue bars, on my old iMac C2D, MacBook etc. I have two bars.
On my new i7 QC iMac I am only getting one bar. Any body have any thoughts on why this is? Has Apple changed the way the icon shows cores?
Here is a link to a photo of my current dock on my i7.
Current Dock Icon on i7 Quad Core
On my new i7 QC iMac I am only getting one bar. Any body have any thoughts on why this is? Has Apple changed the way the icon shows cores?
Here is a link to a photo of my current dock on my i7.
Current Dock Icon on i7 Quad Core
Comments
Maybe with it being hyper-threaded, showing 8 bars side-by-side would be too much so they joined them into one.
You may choose to experiment with various requests to display and preferences of Activity Monitor; it's quite probable this option is hidden. It may as well be unavailable at all.
Personally, I use iStat menubar indicators which are far more informative and configurable. And less resource-consuming, too.
P.S. Joyfully, have finally dragged out and annihilated useless native Apple's date/time menu bar item and replaced it with the iStat's thing, which is really worth being put onto menu bar.