finding usage time

[zoran]

Is it possible from the day i first purchased my mbpro to find how many hours i have been using it? Might there be some stopwatch/timer to be tracking the usage hours?

 

[B S Magnet]

Is it possible from the day i first purchased my mbpro to find how many hours i have been using it? Might there be some stopwatch/timer to be tracking the usage hours?

If you’ve kept the same SSD in your device since buying the computer new (assuming it’s not a soldered SSD), you can use SMARTreporter (a shareware utility) to “Show attributes” for the internal drive:

One of those attributes, the “Power_On_Hours” attribute, will correspond, generally, to the number of hours you’d had your system running since new. That data will be accurate, however, for the drive inside. If the drive’s been changed, then those Power_On_Hours will correspond only to the drive being used, not to the computer itself. If you have a Mac with a soldered SSD, then this will all but likely be exactly the number of “powered on” hours your Mac has (unless you had it replaced by Apple).

Example:

(NOTE: With SSDs, the “VALUE” and “TYPE” attributes will never be accurate, because S.M.A.R.T. protocol was designed originally for spinning hard drives. The example above is of a fairly new WD Red SSD I bought three months ago for my much older MBP. “1558 hours” corresponds to about 65 days of being powered on.)

Hopefully this fits the bill for what you need.

 

[zoran]

Its a refurbished 2021 16" mbpro

 

[B S Magnet]

Its a refurbished 2021 16" mbpro

Then you should be able to determine how long it’s been powered on.