[weemandan]

Hi all,

Was just having a bit of a random thought whilst sat on my other mac, a mac mini. Wouldn't it be cool if we could have the mini 9's identify themselves as some kind of laptop rather than a generic mac which I presume is the case atm. What I'm getting at is in the Finder sidebar it'd be nice to see the dell mini 9 from another mac as a laptop of some kind.

Anyone else had this thought or know if its possible to spoof the mini so others macs believe it to be something else?

Dan

[RealG]

Someone else recently asked this question too. I am not a 100% sure how you would do this. I have done a little snooping around on my systems and it seems that in the sharing OS X sends the system info which will effect which icon is selected.

If you look in System Profiler you will see that the second line is Model Identifier. I believe this is what's sent. You would need to figure out how to change this.

[weemandan]

Thanks for the pointer, I'll look into how this can be edited :-)

[markb]

Why would it be 'cool'?

[jeperkin]

Originally Posted by markb

Why would it be 'cool'?

We're a bunch of nerds/geeks, and we like this kind of stuff.

[weemandan]

Originally Posted by markb

Why would it be 'cool'?

I'm very happily a geek and also it just looks a little wrong that it shows up as a generic mac from my other macs, I'm thinking any mac laptop would look better and make more sense, non?

Dan

[markb]

Originally Posted by jeperkin

We're a bunch of nerds/geeks, and we like this kind of stuff.

I gathered that

[rakmini]

I too would like to see "this kind of stuff." :geek:

This Engadget article tells you where OSX pulls the sidebar 'Shared' icons from:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

There are icons for most modern Macs: [attachment=0:zlwrrmna]coretypes-icons.gif[/attachment:zlwrrmna]
- Can we figure out which string one Mac uses to identify another Mac?
- Is it in the same place that the AboutThisMac.pkg writes to?
- Can a Mac/Mini9 send a custom icon?
- Can we modify a plist/kext to make the Mini9 report that it's a Black Macbook or an XServe?

[RealG]

- Can we figure out which string one Mac uses to identify another Mac??

My assumption is it's the same info as in the System Profiler. I am not sure where that info is stored though.

- Is it in the same place that the AboutThisMac.pkg writes to?

About this Mac seems to only pull info from /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist. This doesn't seem to include the hardware info.

- Can a Mac/Mini9 send a custom icon?

I don't think you could "send" an icon.

- Can we modify a plist/kext to make the Mini9 report that it's a Black Macbook or an XServe?

I think if you can figure out where it pulls the system info from then yes, this could be modified to show up as a Black Macbook.

[starkruzr]

Would make more sense to my line of thinking for it to show up as a Macbook Air.