Is it really that unrealistic in 2013 to expect my machine to be able to update a few graphs once every couple of seconds without falling to its knees and weeping? I know it's having to make lots of calls into the kernel to get the data, and I can live with it taking up a little bit of CPU now and then, but I have a right to expect it not to hang the OS.
I guess the ugly UI of the thing should have been a warning.
>Is it really that unrealistic in 2013 to expect my machine to be able to update a few graphs once every couple of seconds without falling to its knees and weeping?
It depends on how it's coded. And stat apps are notorious for using lots of resources.
Otherwise, a 2013 machine is a pretty tough beast performance wise, including running tons of highly demanding apps.
For people that know about DAWs, this video proves that the Retina MBP 15" is an absolute beast:
Ugly is probably too harsh, you're right. However I find that amount of fiddly extra chrome sets off alarm bells in my head. The config app gives me flashbacks of trying to delete norton utilities.
