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[Hotpaulieboy]

Worked for me, displays correct info. I dont know how to post a pic but i have a core i7 920 @2.67Hz

Thnkx 4 making it so easy Eddie :-)

[edwardzracing]

Worked great for me in Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (screenshot attached).  Big thanks!

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[null_x86]

Cool guys, got this going on my Mini 9 with 10.6. Thanks a bunch Eddie.

[mingzhi]

cool! work for me!

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[Brahim B]

Thanks man it worked like charm

[jurrel davis]

nice, that did the trick

eddie11c, on Apr 11 2008, 05:47 PM, said:

Well after a bit of trial and error I figured I would share my progress here to get more people to test it. This is just an installer that grabs your cpu info and outputs it for the "About this Mac" window. Please try it and report back, I have included support for all languages, so hopefully it works for everyone.

AboutThisMac

AboutThisMac.zip

[CompGuy49]

Thanks! Worked great!

[naoxiong]

Notebook      hp540-259
System         10.6.2

cpu              3 GHz
memory       1066 MHz

In fact , cpu 1.8 GHz and memory 800 MHz . How can i do ?

[ProUnbeatable]

Thanks working for me

[SaViGnAnO]

awesome, osx86tools messed mine up on my laptop, hope this fixes it

[youngstacks74]

Works Perfectly Over Here

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[lazybon3]

For the People where "About This Mac" doesn't work here is a quick&dirty workaround:

Just put CPUInjector.kext from here in your /Extra/Extensions/ or /S/L/E Folder.
After that edit the Info.plist file in CPUInjector.kext

Just add any invalid value for cpu-type (so that your CPU will be recognized as unknown CPU on the next boot)

Example from my CPUInjector.kext/Contents/Info.plist:

<key>cpu-type</key>
<data>
AMD=
</data>


Now my CPU is shown as AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ in about this Mac. The only bad thing is that it doesn't show up in System Profiler anymore.

I also tried adding invalid SMcputype in /Extra/smbios.plist, but this did not work for me, and my CPU still got shown as Core 2 Duo. But maybe it works for someone else. So if you dont want to add an additional .kext, this is the way to go.

EDIT: I almost forgot: You still need to install "About This Mac", this Guide is just for the People where nothing changes after the setup.

[Rolgar]

Looks like I'm the first in 2011.

Worked for me  

Xeon L5640 on Asus Z8PE-D18, OS X 10.6.5

Many thanks

[mohdumar]

works...

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[Veacheslav]

Thnx a lot!
worked great on my unlocked AMD phenom II X4 B25 (was Athlon II x3 425)

[AVO-Electronics]

eddie11c, on Apr 11 2008, 10:47 PM, said:

Well after a bit of trial and error I figured I would share my progress here to get more people to test it. This is just an installer that grabs your cpu info and outputs it for the "About this Mac" window. Please try it and report back, I have included support for all languages, so hopefully it works for everyone.

AboutThisMac

AboutThisMac.zip

I tried it, and it worked on snow leopard, partially.

But I've since removed it because it's altered the ram reading from 800mhz to 677mhz?

Do you know how to correct this? I have already replaced the string file with a backup!

[Slice]

AVO-Electronics, on Jan 5 2011, 02:34 PM, said:

I tried it, and it worked on snow leopard, partially.

But I've since removed it because it's altered the ram reading from 800mhz to 677mhz?

Do you know how to correct this? I have already replaced the string file with a backup!

With good bootloader you will get right AboutMac.

[bcobco]

hi
something went wrong when trying to edit strings... i have now everything strings with "ABOUT_BOX_etc_etc_etc". i think that this happened after trying to set a large string.
im not sure how to revert, because Defaults only can revert image, not strings.
tanks in advance.
####################EDIT##################
"/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings" WAS EMPTY!!!
now is fixed.
peace