Some people have wondered why Disk Utility shows a 25-35MB/sec transfer rate when the hard drive installed on the system is a SATA II device that has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 300MB/sec.

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

Activity Monitor is Mac OS's process manager, similar in function to Windows Task Manager. In this utility you can see every process running on your computer, how much memory it is using, stop ...

Apple's system process viewer gets an interface reorganization, and offers new views of the impact of applications and services running on your Mac. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

OS X’s Activity Monitor is an essential tool to help you keep your system in good shape. In this report we tell you what it is and some ways to use it. Activity Monitor lets you watch your Mac. It ...

Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look past the information ...