Four Free Cooling Fan Management Utilities
Do you think your MacBook (Pro) is running to hot? Give Fan Control a try then.
Some MacBook (Pro) are just to hot for daylong use. Fan Control adjusts the minimum fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature. For safety, it leaves the original automatic fan speed control intact.
Fan Control is Open Source, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The sources are included in the download.
Costs
Fan Control is free. Donations gratefully appreciated.
For more information, visit:
http://www.lobotomo.com/products/FanControl/
MacBook & MacBook Pro and iMac Extended Fan Control
With the upgrade to 10.5, the developer's Intel-based iMac was left without a fan-control solution that worked adequately. To that end, he decided to modify the open source (GPL) FanControl to work with the iMac. The result is two new versions of Fan Control, one optimized for the Intel-based iMacs and one for the MacBook/MacBook Pro.
These versions also have some extended control capabilities over the original FanControl. The iMac version uses separate sensors to drive the control of each of its three fans. The MacBook/MacBook Pro version allows use of the CPU and/or GPU temperatures to drive the fans. (The GPU-based operation can be useful if you play games.)
MacBook & MacBook Pro Fan Control:
http://www.derman.com/Download/Special/MBpFanControl.html
iMac Fan Control:
http://www.derman.com/Download/Special/iMacFanControl.html
or
http://www.conscius.de/~eidac/index.html
smcFanControl 2.1
Hendrik Holtmann's smcFanControl is a tool to cool down your Intel Mac and monitor temperature and fan speed. smcFanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans, so you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your intel mac run cooler. However in order not to damage your machine scFanControl lets you not set minimum speed to a rate under Apple's defaults.
Features:
• Displays temperature and fan speed in the menubar
• Apply different fan-settings with just one click
• Lets you set different minimum speeds for every fan seperately and save them as favorites
• Autoapply different fan settings when the powersource changes (MacBooks only)
• Sourcecode included! Extend it and change it to your needs
smcFanControl 2.1 released
smcFanControl 2.1 includes a lot of improvements:
• "Icon only"-option for MenuItem
• Autocheck for updates on startup-option (integration of Sparkle Framework)
• Sync-Sliders-option on MacBook Pro's
• MenuItem-Color can be changed.
• Improved temperature-sensor readout on Mac Pro and imac 24"
• MenuItem-width is now fixed to avoid jumping MenuItems
For more information, visit:
http://www.conscius.de/~eidac/software/smcfancontrol2/index.html
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