Hi,

There are a couple of ways to definitively test for a hackintosh. You could look at the IO Registry for unusual hardware configurations. But as it happens, the latest Hackintosh kernels all use custom Machine Type strings. So you can test to see if it's one of the known Mac models, and if it isn't you can assume it's probably a Hackintosh.

Unfortunately, this breaks if future Macs introduce new Machine Type strings, which is almost certain. You'll notice I'm not testing for AppleTV, for example, because I don't happen to know its string.

The following is what I use in "TabletMagic" to detect a TabletPC :


- (BOOL)detectHackintosh
{
  SInt32 gestaltReturnValue;
  BOOL is_known_mac = NO;
  if (!Gestalt(gestaltUserVisibleMachineName, &gestaltReturnValue))
  {
char *known_machines[] = {"AAPL","iMac","PowerBook","PowerMac","RackMac",
        "Macmini","MacPro","MacBookPro","MacBook"};
    StringPtr pmach = (StringPtr)gestaltReturnValue;
    int i, len = pmach[0];
    char *machine_string = (char*)malloc(len+2);
    strncpy(machine_string, (char*)&pmach[1], len+1);

    for (i=sizeof(known_machines)/sizeof(known_machines[0]); i--;)
if (!strncmp(machine_string, known_machines[i], strlen(known_machines[i]))) { is_known_mac = YES; break; }

    free(machine_string);
  }

  if (is_known_mac)
  {
    // delete the tab having identifier "6"
[ tabview removeTabViewItem: [ tabview tabViewItemAtIndex: [ tabview indexOfTabViewItemWithIdentifier: @"6" ] ] ];
  }

  return !is_known_mac;
}



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  Scott Lahteine          Thinkyhead Software
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    http://www.thinkyhead.com/


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