Customer Reviews for Micromat TechTool Pro 4 (Mac)

Micromat TechTool Pro 4 (Mac)
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Software Reviews of Micromat TechTool Pro 4 (Mac)

Customer Review: Do NOT waste your $$$$
Summary: 1 Stars

To begin with, TTP is not by any means the only game in town. It is however, going to be the the most expensive or completely useless. Micromat will be happy either way. As a current Micromat customer, I am the proud owner of an expensive utility that worked for all of two months. Leopard broke it completely. When Micromat updated their utility to be compatible with Apple's current OS, they wanted all of us to pay them again. They simply renamed the "update" from "Techtool Pro 4" r4.5.3 to "Techtool Pro 4" r4.6.1 an "upgrade". They're also calling their all new "Techtool Pro 5" an "upgrade". Do yourself a favor, buy Diskwarrior and you'll only have to pay for it just the one time.

Customer Review: excellent service
Summary: 5 Stars

received shipping notice right away. did not receive my software for like a month. emailed amazon and they sent another one right away.

Customer Review: Unsafe program sold by sleazy jerks
Summary: 1 Stars

I purchased this product and it worked for a while, then leopard came out and I needed up purchase a upgrade disk for 25 bucks plus shipping, no download offered. Then after "optimizing" my harddrive I had to reinstall leopard because my permission were broken beyond the repair of disk utility. When I tried to contact their technical support they made me register the product, which is fine, then enter a registration number which I didn't seem to have, so no help for me. Now they're advertising techtool 5 and despite the fact that I'd purchased the product only one and a half months ago they told me I would have to purchase yet another upgrade to get the latest version; so I tossed away the upgrade money for nothing.

Disk utility is fine for disk maintenance, for SMART monitoring I suggest iStat pro. Don't buy this or anything from micromat.

Customer Review: Solid program
Summary: 4 Stars

I recently went in to my neighbhoord Mac place (not an Apple store) where the fix-it guy said that they didn't sell software like TechTools anymore because OS X was too hard to make repairs on your own. I had used TechTools with previous Mac OX versions and found it helpful, so I didn't believe the guy. I purchased TechTools through Amazon. Even so, I had to go 50 miles to the nearest Apple Genius Bar because I was definitely having significant issues with an iBook G4 that I couldn't quite figure out. The tech got it running, for free I might add. Then I ran the tests and things in TechTool Pro 4 to get the machine back in shape. It has run smoothly for awhile.

MicroMat also has a pretty good forum where employees answer questions relatively quickly.

I do think that running TechTools on occassion probably would have helped me avoid the previous problem. I think, for the price, buying and using TechTools is like added insurance.