Hello there!

Here comes again a new version of Turbo Boost Switcher both FREE & PRO to celebrate incoming macOS Ventura version just released.

This time all new features are requested by many of you since a lot of time!

• macOS Ventura tested and ready to go! (FREE and PRO)
• New Auto Mode: CPU Load (PRO only): Yes! now you can set a CPU level as auto mode. As you can see in the following figure, enable it so Turbo Boost is automatically disabled when cpu load goes above the configured level, and goes on again below a certain load.

• Revamped Charting!: (FREE and PRO): Charting needed some love since long ago, so put some work over them with this version:
  
  
  • 2 New Chart Modes: Now you can view also the CPU Load and Frequency average values.
  • No data: When there is no data available a gray background layer is added.
  • Adjusted charts: Axes and values are now scaled proportionally.
  • CPU Frequency Charts: Since retrieving CPU frequency (using powermetrics) is time and cpu consuming, data is only obtained when charting window is open, that’s why no value is shown (grey background) when charting is closed.

• Minor fixes and improvements, help update and so on.

So hope you enjoy it! and please let me know what you think about this new version on comments below.

Thanks for your help and support!!!

Hi there!

I’ve just tried myself and wanted to share with all of you that Turbo Boost Switcher (both PRO and FREE versions) is working flawlessly on the just released macOS Ventura final!

Hooray! I’ll keep this post updated after each beta release until final version for compatibility tracking. That means the app is compatible with macOS 13 final version!

Here you’ve got a little screenshot taken just now

And there is more… since Power Mode Switcher is working just fine too!

For those of you that need to approve the kernel extension again and/or installing for the first time on macOS Ventura, the process is the same, but Apple changed the user interface a little.

Here is how it’s shown as of now. As you can see, now settings are shown with a left navigation sidebar, but you just need to click there over “Security and privacy” as always and, after that, click over “Details…” in order to enable the kernel extension from “Legacy Developer: rugarciap”. Something like the following screenshots. After that, remember to reboot! although macOS will ask you to do that.

Enjoy!

Hello there!

Here comes a new release of Turbo Boost Switcher, version 2.11.0. It’s already available for download both free and pro version.

I’ve been waiting for Monterey to become final to be sure it’s fully compatible without any issues, and since even previous version worked just fine, here we go!

Let’s get into it and take a deeper look to the new features it includes:

• Auto mode priorities! (PRO): As many of you have requested, now you can change auto mode tabs position to decide which configuration is reviewed first!. Just do some drag & drop after clicking on new “Reorder” button to decide which auto mode is evaluated first.

• Custom Hotkeys (FREE & PRO): This is another feature requested by many of you!. Now you can set your own hotkeys both for disabling / enabling Turbo Boost and charting

• Ability to enable / disable hotkeys: … and if you want to just disable hotkeys, feel free to do it with the new hotkeys configuration window.

• Several other minor improvements and new features, like:
  • Fan auto mode now up to 8.000rpm
  • Modal popups are now always on top modal
  • Translation improvements
  • … and more!

Hopes you like it and as always thank you very much for your support!

Hi there!

That’s it… I’ve been testing the app with Monterey and works just fine from beta to final vresion! Hurray! As you can see on the image below, the app keeps disabling turbo boost with Monterey developer beta final! .All other features works fine the same that they do on current stable Big Sur version.

And there is MORE. I’ve been playing with the new low power mode provided by Apple in Monterey, and it does NOT disables Turbo Boost. Instead, it keeps the frecuency above the base clock value (in mine, 300Mhz above) so the power & battery saving and temperature reduction is still better if you use Turbo Boost Switcher than Low Power Mode from Apple.

Best of all, you can use both! I tried Since that feature is a little obscure, and they might be performing other optimisations.., it’s great that you can have both options to keep disabling turbo boost and get other improvements by Apple itself on their new low power mode option.

This was just a little fast test… and of course more time is needed, but the first results on my test Macbook Pro (characteristics on previous figure) seems to point that.

• Turbo Boost Switcher saves you 4Watts compared to new Low Power Mode.
• Turbo Boost Switcher will lower down the frequency 300Mhz below Low Power Mode does.
• Turbo Boost Swithcer gets you lower temperature, 5ºC less than Low Power Mode.

Of course, this numbers may change depending on the Mac model you’re working with, but the relative difference between those configurations will probably be proportional. Apple did some job here finally, but it seems that at least for now Turbo Boost Switcher will get you better battery performance, temperature and noise reduction that the new low power mode. Let’s see in the future!

Enjoy!

Hi there!

In summary, yes, the app works fine, both free and pro, with latest Mojave Beta and also the new Macbooks Pro 2018. Just writing this small post to let you all know :).

Mojave first betas suffered from one bug that was preventing the kernel extension from being loaded. That affected to many apps like Littlesnitch, but after reporting to Apple, they solved it on public beta 3 of Mojave (developer beta 4) :), so yes, the app is again working just fine with latest Mojave Beta!

Here you’ve got a screenshot of the app running on my MB air with Mojave public beta 3 and dark mode enabled.

About the app running on new Macbooks (2018), it just works fine allowing to enable / disable turbo boost without issues. It makes sense, since as you know (you should! :P) the feature is controlled by a Processor MSRs and Intel doesn’t change that from model to model… (the feature depends on Intel, not Apple….). There has been also many users confirmations of the app running on new Macbook, so, again, yes, the app works fine with the new MBPs 2018 so far.

Edit: Confirmed myself with my new MBP 2018 and little fixed released on 2.7.1 version.

As always, thanks for all your comments and support!