These are "gauges" which have been designed to provide you with quick answers to your performance related questions. The number of gauges in the Gauge Series will be increasing rapidly, so watch your favorite online service for new ones. These gauges are FREEWARE! Use them yourself and give them to your friends. They may not be modified, and they should always be accompanied by this text file.
Clockometer™ (rhymes with thermometer)
This application was created to provide you with the answers to two very simple questions. The first question is, "How fast is my computer really running", and the second is "What CPU is in this box"? These questions may at first blush appear to be incredibly easy to answer, but as you will soon see...looks may be deceiving. If you, or someone in your organization, has placed a clock enhancing accelerator (such as the Newer Technology MacClip™ or PowerClip™) in a computer, then what speed is that computer running? Or better yet, what if someone installed the accelerator in one of say...ten 6100s in the office. How do you quickly determine which one it is installed in? In the past people have used programs such as Scott Berfield's Speedometer in order to determine overall speed. However, these programs don't actually provide you with a "real world" speed. Instead they give you a relative performance number which you can then compare against another relative number for some other CPU and in this manner you can get an idea of whether you are running faster or slower. A better solution is to run Clockometer, and in one second you can know exactly how fast your computer is running. As to the second question of, "what CPU is really in my box?", this is becoming a real issue. If you have a Macintosh 9500, 8500, 7600, or 7500 with a removable CPU card, how do you know what card is actually in the computer at any given moment? Or better yet, how do you know what speed the card is? Since CPU cards can have 601's, 604's, or 604e's on them and they can be running at any speed, how do you know when you walk into a room, what is in the box that is sitting there? The answer,...run Clockometer and get your answers within a second.
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