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Daily Trick 11. Decipher Serial Number

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No, we're not talking any hacking process here. We will talk about our Mac serial number. Every Mac comes with serial number, do you know about this?

If you want to know your Mac serial number, you can click on the Apple logo on the menubar and then open About This Mac. On the floating pane, click the version number of your Mac two times, it will change into Mac serial number.

Then how can we decipher this serial number?

  1. Go to chipmunk.nl
  2. Enter your Mac serial number
  3. See interesting facts about your Mac, including production date and factory of production
    4. Ah! My Mac is produced in 4H (China), on May 2006 and it's number 1889.

This conversation often takes place after reading this trick.

"Where is your Mac coming from?"
"China. So, what can I do with this?"
"I dunno. Don't ask me."

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5 Comments

Slava Kaushan 

It's fun! Thank you! 
my MBP
Factory: W8 (Shanghai China)
Production year: 2008
Production week: 40 (October)
Production number: 5030 (within this week)

but I bought it in Sep 09 :) 

anyway any brothers of my MBP here ? :) 

btw, your form for commenting looks very progressive - even a bit too much - it's a bit complicated for readers - try to change it to standard and track how it will work for number of comments

Linux Geek 

What happened to daily trick 10?

Wendy 

Oops, missed that one. Inserted it back already. Many thanks for reminding.

Jay 

www.appleserialnumberinfo.com shows more info and the same info as chipmunk only more accurate!

DiZo 

Hey, did you know about coconutidenfitycard? I think that it does the same job btw

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