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  1. B S Magnet

    ★★★ Inviting Apple Collector forum participants to help decode known assembly locations of Apple hardware serials

    For a little while, I’ve been working on a project over on the PowerPC Macs forum, collecting serial prefixes on Apple gear going back to at least 1983 and making a list of where Apple hardware components were assembled. I’ve been doing so mostly to have as many known Apple assembly...
    • B S Magnet
    • Thread
    • accessories apple history assembled components hardware manufactured manufacturer serial numbers vintage vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Apple Collectors
  2. L

    Mac Pro 5,1 missing motherboard serial. Lots of certificate not generated messages in console.

    Probably needs a serial to generate a certificate. this is an audio production machine that will never go online I think i need to put a serial in there to calm down these messages. Or disable csrutil and just delete the offending programs, (apds, powerd, opendirectoryd, rapportd, etc) What...
    • loveslap
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    • macpro serial numbers
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  3. LJGlik

    Duplicate Serial Numbers?

    I got a new MacBook a month ago for work, and this week I began to experience some pretty major problems with it shutting down multiple times a day. I brought it into the Apple Store, and they agreed to give me a new replacement computer. Since I got the computer through work, I took a photo of...
    • LJGlik
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    • serial numbers
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: MacBook
  4. hotlips69

    Mismatched Serial Number?

    I've been given an old (circa 2008) but working MBP & I simply put in a new hard drive, increased the RAM & installed the latest OS that it would take (El Capitan 10.11.6) and I thought all was fine initially, until I realised that the Serial Number in the "About This Mac" is totally different...
  5. F

    Serial number not matching my about this Mac?

    So I bought a used MBP through a friend and on the about this Mac it says it is an early 2011 and shows specs but when I punch the serial number (matches on the bottom and in the about this Mac) it comes up as a 2009 model. I haven't found anything about this but I did hear it is possible to...
  6. D

    Change Serial Number

    Hi, I have an Macbook Air 13 Mid 2013 i5 / 4gb. I bought a replacement logic board i7/8gb from ebay in order to upgrade my laptop. I've installed the new board and everything works great. But the Serial Numbers Appears as Unavailable. How I can generate a new serial number? As I understand the...
    • devops
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    • logic board serial numbers
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: MacBook Air
  7. M

    Apple Care Mess Please help!

    Hello, I have AppleCare and went to get my iPhone 6 Plus fixed at my somewhat local apple store a few hours ago. When they went to fix it, they told me that they would not fix my phone because the TouchID serial number did not match my phone's series number and they accused me of "tampering" or...
    • makris0000
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    • applecare serial numbers
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: iPhone
  8. S

    Buying a MacBook Pro but the serial number is blanked out. Why is that?

    Ok I want to purchase a new or used MacBook Pro but I've seen people blacking out the serial number and I don't know why. I called apple but the representative had no clue either. Can someone steal info like this or what? Please explain every little thing. I'm new so sorry. I have a example...
  9. Rodion Kuprin

    MacBook serial number lookup

    Hello, Comrades! You can find a few websites which provide serial number decoding (the one which is completely free is everymac.com btw) I wanted to get a list of the serial numbers and build a correspondence table where you could easily identify model and family (it looks like it is coded...
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