...reading out the CPU Info

News & General Discussion
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Is there a tiny tool (like those dozens on win) for OSX which can read out my CPU Information? I need more information as it’s shown in the Hardware Overview of OSX as i want to know the exact revision of a few macs. I guess mine is a Apollo7 7447 (G4 Mini).

2

For detailed hardware info, try:

sysctl -a hw

If you just need model string:

sysctl -a hw.model

BR,
Juha

3

Thanks, now i only need to find out more about the cputypes…

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Wikipedia gives nice list of models and cpu types:

BR,
Juha

5

Thanks! Found this one too in the meantime. Problem is how to connect the given CPU-ID to the CPU-Type.

6

The another useful command line tool is “system_profiler”. It prints lot of system information.

Here are few lines from the beginning (I have the latest MacBook):

Hardware:

    Hardware Overview:

      Model Name: MacBook
      Model Identifier: MacBook3,1
      Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed: 2 GHz
      Number Of Processors: 1
      Total Number Of Cores: 2
      L2 Cache: 4 MB
      Memory: 4 GB
      Bus Speed: 800 MHz
      Boot ROM Version: MB31.008D.B00
      SMC Version: 1.24f2
      ...

BR,
Juha

7

And if you don’t need the binding between ID and Type there is a tool called MacTracker around…

→ http://www.mactracker.ca/