Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial

Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Activity Monitor and System Preferences in Mac OS X, which are tools to respectively monitor and tailor Mac OS X settings and arrangements for personal use.

Activity Monitor is a task manager, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, in the OS X operating system.[1][2] Some of its functions include:

Quitting or “killing” a computer process
Viewing the computer’s CPU load
Checking the amount of random access memory in use or swapped out
Checking the amount of hard disk read-ins and write-outs
Checking the capacity of storage devices
Monitoring the computer’s network usage
Inspecting running computer processes
Viewing a process identifier number
Viewing information about a particular process

Prior to Mac OS X v10.3, the Activity Monitor was named the Process Viewer.[3]

Learn these two parts of Mac OS X functionality and you will get much more satisfaction out of your desktop Mac OS X usage.

Link to Mac OS X Activity Monitor information … from Wikipedia from which quote above comes.
Link to Mac OS X Activity Monitor support … from Apple (the company of Mac OS X and so the company of Activity Monitor).

Let’s see some simple Activity Monitor and System Preferences in action, in Mac OS X …

System Preferences is an application included with the Mac OS X operating system that allows users to modify various system settings which are divided into separate preference panes. The System Preferences application was introduced in the first version of Mac OS X to replace the control panel that was included in previous versions of the Mac operating system.

Link to Mac OS X System Preferences information … from Wikipedia from which quote above comes.
Link to Mac OS X System Preferences support … from Apple (the company of Mac OS X and so the company of System Preferences).

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