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A Way to Change "About This Mac" to Your Actual CPU Instead of ADP2,1


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Instructions:

 

From your 10.4.3 Installation:

 

in Terminal:

 

T=/Volumes/'your10.4.5disk'/System/Library/SystemProfiler

E=/System/Library/SystemProfiler

cd $T

sudo mkdir backup

sudo mv $T/SPPlatformReporter.spreporter $T/backup

sudo cp -R $E/SPPlatformReporter.spreporter $T

 

Repair Permissions on your 10.4.5 disk.

 

Boot into your 10.4.5 Installation and repair permissions again.

 

Your System Profiler should now function properly. If you would like to customize the output as I have, then follow these directions:

 

copy the following files to your desktop:

 

/System/Library/SystemProfiler/SPPlatformReporter.spreporter/Contents/Resources/SPMachineTypes.plist and /English.lproj/Localizable.strings

 

Now open these files you copied to your desktop with TextEdit and modify the following lines:

 

in SPMachineTypes.plist:

<key>ADP2,1</key>

<string>SuperMac</string> ----- change

 

in Localizable.strings:

add the following line where the model names are....

"ADP2,1" = "your_processor_here";

 

Now Open Terminal and do the following:

 

T=/System/Library/SystemProfiler/SPPlatformReporter.spreporter/Contents/Resources

sudo cp /Users/yourname/Desktop/SPMachineTypes.plist $T

sudo cp /Users/yourname/Desktop/Localizable.strings $T/English.lproj

 

Let me know how this works out for you guys.

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ok, i see what you're talking about now. the strings you added will show up in the hardware tab in System Profiler.

My 10.4.3 system shows just like yours, but my 10.4.5 system shows an Athlon64 3700+ instead of ADP2,1. However, 10.4.5's System Profiler won't show the hardware tab.

 

I'm still looking into possibilities. You've fixed as much as I've been able to figure out so far.

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I have another question: in 10.4.5, how does one change the "Machine Model"? I remember phor2zero saying it returns the same string as cpu_type, but it doesn't appear to be so for me.

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