Tool that measures MacBook's temperature

Discussion in 'Parallels Toolbox Feature Suggestions' started by CharlesC5, Jun 18, 2017.

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Would you want a temperature monitor in Parallels tool box for your Mac?

Poll closed Aug 6, 2020.
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  1. CharlesC5

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    A "cool" feature would be the ability to control the fan speed of your mac for times when your laptop gets really hot from watching videos or running certain applications.
     
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  2. KelvinB

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    The new MacBooks have passive cooling, so it would be interesting to know if it's been working on the edge.
     
  3. Rom2020

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  4. PhilippM3

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    A feature that let's the user monitor and control the fans of the computer.
     
  5. OnderD

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    Please add fan speed control and performance app that we can change the speed of the cooling system.
     
  6. Alex Patsay

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    That's not possible without digging really deep into the system and most likely will become obsolete soon due to Apple's decision to block kernel extensions in macOS
     
  7. AmalT

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    Have a temperature monitor with a display of it in the top bar and a nice app view to see the temperature of the MacBook to ensure it is running as expected
     
  8. KarenP1

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    imac fan speed control
     
  9. PatrickO3

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    With all the tools already included in Parallels Tool Box I couldnt resist suggesting a fan control and display of all the parameters of your machine such as fan speed, CPU/GPU/RAM/ETC. temps to make sure everything stays within reasonable temperature while you are working especially running virtual machines.
     
  10. Alex Patsay

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    such functionality requires very deep integration into macOS' kernel. Apple eradicates kernel extensions from macOS, so unfortunately we cannot provide such feature, although we would love to.
     
  11. SerdarG2

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    A Small Temperature app on the menu bar top ....
     
  12. RobertG1

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    If not fan controls, what about an internal temperature monitor?
     
  13. Alex Patsay

    Alex Patsay Parallels Team

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    Here's the new tool in Toolbox 5.1 -- CPU Temperature!
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  14. RichardH27

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    Fantastic new feature. Can it be expanded with following options?
    • Allow choice of which sensor appears in menu bar (Efficiency Cores, GPU, etc). Additionally, perhaps allowing MAX option to show highest among the sensors.
    • Adjust update interval, up to 60 seconds (seems to default to 5 seconds)
     

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