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Does iTunes 7 know what colour your iPod is?
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In iTunes 7, the settings panel when you have your iPod plugged in has a little picture of an iPod in it..
I have a 4G iPod, and the picture shows a 4G, my mum has a shuffle and her iTunes shows a shuffle, so I know that iTunes does know what type of iPod is connected and shows the relevant picture. But if you have an iPod which has a choice of colour, either black, white, U2, or a coloured mini or nano, does it display the right colour for your iPod?
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Yes, it does. It gets it from the serial number, I believe.
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That's cool. 
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Yes, my green iPod mini shows up green. Nifty.
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Yep, black nano is black.
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Scratched blue mini is immaculate blue. Odd 
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
Scratched blue mini is immaculate blue. Odd
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That's pretty sweet. I don't know why they don't make the HDs for various computers accurate to what type of Mac they are. The Finder should be able to do that sorta thing.
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I love the attention to detail on the Mac and was really amazed to see my wife's phone show up as it looks like in real life under iSync. With Windows, I simply get the name of the device but with Macs, I can actually see a picture of the mobile.
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Just another thing that makes us love Apple. Attention to details.
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Just another fine polishing touch apple does - wow they really do pay attention to details.
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Originally Posted by Salty 
That's pretty sweet. I don't know why they don't make the HDs for various computers accurate to what type of Mac they are. The Finder should be able to do that sorta thing.
Indeed, especially since that was done in the past. In System 7, the About This Mac... window showed you the model name and an icon of the computer, pulled from its Gestalt ID. (Beginning with the PCI Macs, all Macs have Gestalt 406, I think.)
But since then, it's certainly been possible to positively identify a Mac based on its serial number, which the computer knows. The system identifier string (e.g. "PowerBook5,2" for this 15" AlBook) is also available, and System Profiler knows what to convert it to (for mine, it says 'PowerBook G4 15"').
Remember the fruity iMacs? A lot of people didn't realize it, but those machines, and other models of the same era, included a color code in the serial number. The first time Mac OS 9 would boot up after a fresh install, it read the color code and set the default desktop and system theme (e.g. menu selection color) to match the machine it was running on. So a tangerine iBook would go all orange, my Pismo brownish-gray (to match its "bronze" keyboard), a Power Mac G4 slate gray, etc. Very classy!
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