I’m sure there’s probably a simple technical explanation behind this which I haven’t yet found on MR or elsewhere. Maybe the resident GPU experts on here — ahem, @Amethyst1 — might have some insight.
Why would neofetch report a MacBookPro4,1’s GPU not as a GeForce 8600M GT, but as… an Intel HD Graphics 3000 (like the 2011 MacBook Pros)?
Granted, I ought to add how there might be some outside possibility that because this build of 10.6.8 on this MBP4,1 here originated from a cloned SSD of the early 2011 MBP8,1 (which I’ve owned since new — which itself was transplanted directly from a factory install of 10.6.0 bundled on a MBP5,5 back in 2009 which I bought new one week after Snow Leopard went on sale), the “Intel HD Graphics 3000” could be some residual plist-related relic of this OS build’s roots.
Even so, System Profiler reports what one would expect:
Hypotheses, anyone?
[And for reference, this is neofetch on the aforementioned donor OS X Snow Leopard build from the MBP8,1]:
Why would neofetch report a MacBookPro4,1’s GPU not as a GeForce 8600M GT, but as… an Intel HD Graphics 3000 (like the 2011 MacBook Pros)?
Granted, I ought to add how there might be some outside possibility that because this build of 10.6.8 on this MBP4,1 here originated from a cloned SSD of the early 2011 MBP8,1 (which I’ve owned since new — which itself was transplanted directly from a factory install of 10.6.0 bundled on a MBP5,5 back in 2009 which I bought new one week after Snow Leopard went on sale), the “Intel HD Graphics 3000” could be some residual plist-related relic of this OS build’s roots.
Even so, System Profiler reports what one would expect:
Hypotheses, anyone?
[And for reference, this is neofetch on the aforementioned donor OS X Snow Leopard build from the MBP8,1]:
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