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Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition
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Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition

by Rob Griffiths
September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
16h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Apple System Profiler

The System Profiler (found in Applications Utilities) tool is like a little X-ray machine for your Mac. It reveals all kinds of useful details about your computer, including information about its hard drives, memory, attached devices, and so on. If you—or a tech-support person you have on the phone—ever have a question about what’s inside your machine, System Profiler is a good first stop on Geekland’s solution trail.

Quick Access to Apple System Profiler

Instead of burrowing into your Applications Utilities folder to open System Profiler, it’s faster to use this trick: choose

Quick Access to Apple System Profiler

About This Mac, then, in the resulting dialog box, click the More Info button. The About This Mac window closes and Apple System Profiler opens, just like that.

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