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Faked Macbook Pro information shown in MacOSX window

A friend of mine got a second hand Macbook Pro that showed corei7, 16GB of RAM

as you can see in these pictures https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4wjax8z9w194pv/Pantalla-Retina.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eztovc90xoz3nz4/Info%20Principal.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8curk90avp3kife/CPU-1.png?dl=0

but in real it was a 2009 Macbook Pro with an Intel dualcore CPU,

what a scam!

Posted on Mar 26, 2019 8:33 AM

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Level 1

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So I believe the seller managed to find a way to alter the internal variables used by OSX

to show its the computer specs.

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That's a determined thief who would know information that arcane. Like myself, I would bet only a small percentage of users know about that.

Faked Macbook Pro information shown in MacOSX window

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