Most people don't have 2 Mac Pros at Home, But I Do! If thats an issue change your system definitions to Mac Mini or iMac. For example I have two Mac Pros at home, If my system definitions was set to a Mac Pro then I would have to replace the image of the Mac Pro hense I would not see the same image of a Mac Pro on my network. This also replaces the image of other Macs on your network. Check to see if you can find your case online somewhere and use that pic, otherwise get out a cameraįirst thing to let you know of, You'll be replacing the image of whatever mac is in your About this Mac Overview Tab. They had a decent shot of the front of the case which is what I used. I got the picture of my case from the place I bought it at, Microcenter. Now you can add your own Mac Case to the About This Mac 'Overview' tab. Part 4: Adding your own Mac Image to About This Mac You may or may not need to restart for these settings to take place. I changed mine to 'Mac Mega (Late 2012)'Īs seen in this image, The Text 'Mac Pro' is on the first row of About This Mac Overview Tab. Anything in the Brackets are on Line 2 of About this Mac. You can change this to whatever you like.

In TextWrangler, Depending on your System Definitions, there will be a string that says either Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iMac Etc. You'll want to navigate to /users/administrator (or whatever your user name is)/library/preferences/ and edit the file It took me 2 hours for Unix to grep search my hard drive for the keyword 'Mac mini' (As that is what my system definitions where)ĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles YES Please DON'T Use this guide to Rip People Off! Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should!Īlso Be sure to Backup any files you modify, What you do is on you! If it don't feel right Don't do it! I'm not responsible for anything! If you want to change the pictures you'll need Img2Icns.ĭisclaimer. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

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