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

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Thanks, with this the task is very easy. My string after your PKG:


(spanish)

Thanks, hopefully others can post similar. I would like to see what other outputs they get, as I was unable to test that many CPU's.

It Works for me!!...showed my CPU info correctly...

good newbie tools thanks eddie.
but i like to customize myself more x)

Doesn't work for me. Is it because I've overclocked it, so it doesn't recognise the CPU? Or do I need "Limit CPUID Max. To 3" disabled (in my BIOS)?

I am not real sure, I know it works on overclocked systems as one of the people that tested was overclocked quite a bit. Sabr if you can run the command sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string and tell me what shows up. This is where its getting the information from, as far as I could tell from testing this was always acurate.

Ok new link here

I fixed an issue with the tm for some AMD cpu's not showing properly.

Thanks a lot for this app! When I run the "sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string" it detects my CPU speed incorrectly. It outputs the string:

Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

But my CPU is overclocked to 3ghz. It shows 3ghz in System profiler.

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz

Strange, I will have to check into this some more. Anyone else that is able to test on an overclocked system please post your results.

Overclocking to 3 GHz, "sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string" shows "Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz", same as Pootify.

Hmmm, well, that worked:



I'll try it again...

Edit: Nope, still not working. =/

Yours has an odd spacing, I will see if I can remove some spaces to see if it fixes it. Will post you a new link shortly. I will also check something else about the speed.

EDIT- ok try the one attached if you have a chance SABR.

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ON MY IS NOT WORKING .....

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM THAT SABR

Still doesn't work I'm afraid...

just a couple questions, what language are you using? and when the installer runs it should echo a couple commands with your cpu info as well as if cp fails because the directory is not there. Can you tell me what it says?

Here you go:

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I'm using the British English language.

Working fine for me. Great work =D

Intel® Core™2 CPU 6300@1.86GHz as you can see for whatever reason it does not like the little R and TM. Do you have these symbols in your character pallete? Maybe your character pallete got corrupted.

I can see them as selectable text in Lazarus Long's post further up...

Well if it is a corrupt character palette browse to /System/Library/Caches and delete the following files then reboot:
com.apple.IntlDataCache.le
com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.kbdx
com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.sbdl
com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.tecx

You would then need to run the installer again. As you see the 2 lines from my log below yours should look very similar.

Apr 13 10:51:40 eddies-macpro31 /private/tmp/scripts.jGpD/./postinstall[1342]: "Intel( R ) Core( TM )2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz"
Apr 13 10:51:40 eddies-macpro31 /private/tmp/scripts.jGpD/./postinstall[1342]: "Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400"

Still doesn't work...

I used the iATKOS_v1.0ir2.iso DVD in case you were wondering... By the way, I'm very grateful for all the help you're giving me.

here:
Processor: Flux Capacitor

Unfortunately I have no way of knowing if anything is missing from that release. Maybe when I finish up a few more things and have a chance to upload to my FTP I could convince you to give it a try, see if the same problem exists.

It works great. Thanks alot.

Ok, no worries. Thanks anyway.

Works, but is it meant to show the CPU overclocked speed or tbe default CPU speed?

Thanks it works fine

If you try the last one I posted it should pull the cpu speed like profiler does, so it should be correct.

Brilliant. Works perfectly now. Thanx eddie

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Works great, thanks!

Not working here... Shows the stock speed of my overclocked @3Ghz Q6600.

works like a charm here! thnx a million.

Is there a way to uninstall or reset it? I want to edit with "AboutThisMac.strings" but when I edit it, it stays the same as the installer made it.
Please help.

Is there a way to uninstall it? I want to edit with "AboutThisMac.strings" but when I edit it, it says the same thing on the About This Mac as the installer made it.
Please help.

Ditto on the question about the uninstalation (new word)

I installed it on my MacBook for some strange reason... this app makes users of real Macs feel left out

How do you make the About This Mac screen with a dark gray background like above?

I love how it looks, even one thats transparent I have seen, but I don't know how to make it like that :/

Works great here. nice work

I have a same question too, how could i reverse it?

Browse to /System/Library/CoreServices/Resources/<your language> and open AppleSystemInfo.strings and scroll down to unknown, as most cpu's that are reported as such. Just change the text where you currently see your cpu info back to "unkown" or whatever you want.

works great for me, previously shown as "3 GHz Unknown", Thanks!

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Works. Thank you eddie11c.


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Working without problems!

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Worked for me... tnx.

will this work with Kalyway? Sometimes I feel insecure after patching as I might get kernel panics, but for those who use Kalyway 10.5.2, please report

it only shows the stock speed not the overclock speed. ideas?

also how can i fully remove this program?

Earlier I posted that it works, but yes it only works for showing the stock speed, nothing about over clocking or under.

It's still better than showing x.x ghz unknown proccessor though.

where is the dolwnload link for leo4all

will it work good with my hp compac nc8230
intel pentum m 1.83  sse2
ati readom x600 64m
1g ram 533
dvd/cd-rw

advice me coz i like leopard

2nd one works great!Shows my overclocked speed and accurate cpu type!
Thanks much.

Does not show correctly for me. About this mac shows wrong CPU, but terminal command shows correct CPU but wrong speed, it is overclocked.

Intel® Pentium® Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz

CPU is overclocked to 3.4Ghz.