.....Just a random thought, If I were an Apple Engineer, I might tweak my system to report version 10.7 before browsing rumor sights and the like just for the fun of it.
This is easy. Prior to buying real macs I wanted to test out the OS by installing OSX86 on my PC. It was a big deal to update between service releases so I just tweaked the setting that identified the OS version so I could install software updates. I installed iwork 09 on 10.5.5 despite latest updates supposedly requiring 10.5.6 at the time.
I've been using real macs for over a year now and have scrubbed OS X from my ancient PC.
It just took me 20 seconds to find how to do it again with google.
- You need to change the systemversion.plist.
- To do so, do the following:
- Go to System/Library/CoreServices, then you will see SystemVersion.plist, copy it and paste it on your desktop.
- I suggest you also make a backup just to be sure....can't hurt.
- Then open the plist from your desktop and where the string is that has your system version--- 10.5.2 for example, change it to 10.5.6.
- The version should appear twice in the plist, so change both.
- Then save the plist and paste/replace it over the old systemversion.plist, put in your password, and check your "about this mac" to verify.
NOTE: Do this at your own risk as it could stuff things up (never caused any problems for me though). I only did it as I had installed a test system just to try out using a mac before committing my cash so didn't care if it came crashing down. I changed to real Macs when I found it ran many times faster and more stably than either XP or Vista on the same hardware despite having to be patched in many ways to be able to run on non-apple hardware (including emulating a whole lot of processor functionality - I was using it on an old single core 1.8Ghz AMD processor)
It may be safer if you can change what Safari reports without having to change what the OS thinks it is but I never tried that. Try setting it up as safari 6 and OS X 11. Even better - set up a new system in a virtual machine and use that. Then you can just use copies of the virtual machine file and try lots of different ways without any risk.
I might change it to OS X 11.0 and maybe even safari 6 (if I could work out how to change safari) just for fun and browse Gizmodo/Macrumors/InsanelyMac/Appleinsider and maybe look up Flurry just for fun.