> Le 14 sept. 2015 à 15:53, John Daniel <etresoft.apple.li...@icloud.com> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately, Apple is way ahead of all of us.
> 
> The “Model Identifier” (MacBook8,1 et al.) is not sufficient to identify a 
> particular model. It only identifies general families of models. All you have 
> to do is go to My OWC (http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/ 
> <http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/>), pick MacBook Pro, and look at the 
> options. 
> 
> The system images are where they should be. I don’t understand Apple’s 
> reasoning, but that is where Apple wants them. 
> 
> I don’t know if Apple even tracks the colour of the retina MacBooks. I don’t 
> have one myself. I haven’t been able to find a serial number online. The 
> serial number generator scripts posted online don’t generate valid serial 
> numbers for this model. 
> 
> Scraping the Apple self-service warranty page might work, but I don’t have 
> any MacBook serial numbers for testing. I really don’t want to parse HTML. 
> Even so, people seem to treat serial numbers as personal information and 
> might freak out if I start sending them over the internet. If I had a few 
> serial numbers for testing, I would know more - or at least something.
> 
> I do extract the last 4 characters and send them to Apple’s support web 
> services to get the “marketing name” like "MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 
> 2015)”. But those names don’t seem to include colour. I know of a few 
> different queries for Apple’s services for technical specifications, possible 
> memory upgrades, OS name, and this marketing name. This is a true web service 
> that returns parseable XML. I don’t know if there is any query that will give 
> me the machine icon.
> 

If you just want to current machine icon, just use + [NSImage 
imageNamed:NSImageNameComputer]



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