Getting Mac Model number in Cocoa

Question

I\'m making a OS X app where I need to get the Mac model, for example:

iMac11,3
MacBook3,1

And so on. Is there any class, or function to ge

Answer 1

While not using a direct Cocoa API, you could use NSTask to execute the "system_profiler" command line tool. If you execute the tool as: "system_profiler SPHardwareDataType" it will give you a smaller output which could be filtered to extract the model identifier.

Update

I found an example using sysctl programmatically:

int mib[2];
size_t len = 0;
char *rstring = NULL;

mib[0] = CTL_HW;
mib[1] = HW_MODEL;
sysctl( mib, 2, NULL, &len, NULL, 0 );
rstring = malloc( len );
sysctl( mib, 2, rstring, &len, NULL, 0 );
NSLog(@"%s", rstring );
free( rstring );
rstring = NULL;

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