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Display your CPU's true speed
Authored by: cks3 on Dec 04, '03 11:51:50AM
systcl reports the wrong info. you can see how it does this by typing
sysctl -a
in your Terminal. In the results you will notice that the numbers hw.cpufrequency, hw.cpufrequency_min, and hw.cpufrequency_max will be reported as all the same. I actually wrote a little Applescript called CPUfrequency that used systcl to "diagnose" whether the PMU needed to be reset. Shortly after releasing it to the world, I was lambasted with emails and comments stating that systcl is faulty and therefore my scripts don't really work. If Apple ever fixes sysctl, then the scripts will work and can be found here. If you look through the archives you will find more detailed discussion of why it does not work.

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