About This Mac - Ventura

[DaveWT]

Today I updated my 2017 iMac to Ventura - Continuity Camera alone makes this a wonderful upgrade. Sure there are some (slight) downsides. (Like getting used to the new and "improved?" System Settings. But this is about the "About This Mac" feature I have enjoyed all these years. It used to be you could go up to the Menu bar and select "About This Mac" and then click on "System Report" and you could then see a whole bunch of detailed info such as which apps are 32 bit or 64 bit (back when there was a choice there), Intel or Universal apps, etc. and also a lot of detailed info on the USB port usage etc. under headings of "Hardware", "Network" and "Software". Now in Ventura when I start from "About This Mac" and click on "More Info" it just sends me to that new System Settings window. Is there a way, I haven't discovered yet to get to that "good ol'" information?

 

[DaveWT]

I should have spent a bit more time searching. Happy to report all that good info is still available... Starting from "About this Mac" click on "More Info..."



This brings up the System Settings window as I had discovered before:



Choosing "General" from the sidebar and then going down to "System Report..." takes me to all the good stuff:

 

[chas_m]

Thanks for that tip!

 

[BilBo]

For what it's worth the old System Preferences app still works in Ventura. Just copy it over from another Mac running Big Sur or Monterey.

 

[DaveWT]

Interesting, but that sounds like something that might stop working down the road after a few more updates. I want to learn all the workings of the "new way".