HT4178 Updating NetRestore Images for New Hardware?

Good Afternoon,
I've just taken over Mac Imaging from a colleague who's moved in to another department, we have 2 Mavericks images now, 1 for schools and 1 for corporate. They are easy to create (we build the users and software then capture the image with NetRestore on Mavericks Server) but everytime we get a new MacBook with updated hardware the image fails to go on the new machine (it is backward compatible with no issues).
I come from a Windows backgroud where we use SysPrep to make sure all images are hardware independent - there doesn't seem to be a tool which will do this for Mac, not easily anyway.
My colleague used to create 2 new images completely from scratch every time hardware changed, this to me seems like a waste of time, I would if possible like to see if we could just update the images (via a combo update or something?), run software updates and then recapture it, saving literally a days work every time a new piece of hardware comes out.
Has anyone done this effectively? I know their are 3rd party tools availible that may be able to help but if possible I would like to do it whilst still using NetRestore (our deployment team are familiar with this method).
Kind Regards,
Jon Roberts

Yes, your process as described seems appropriate. Have you tried this on an example? Have you run into any issues?
Regards,
Brandon V.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments 

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