Have you ever wanted to find the technical specifications of that Mac you’ve been using for the last couple of years? All you need is the Serial number (eg. YM0000XXEUH ) or even the model number (eg. MC561LL/A ).
As you would expect Apple have a support page that provides just what you need, what you may not have noticed is that it will use your products serial number to find the exact product specifications you’re after.
Keep reading if you need to find your serial number…
Finding your serial number…
About This Mac
On a modern version of Mac OS X you can usually get your Mac’s serial number from the “About This Mac” window. To get there select “About This Mac” from the Apple menu.
Directly under the Apple logo and the words “Mac OS X” you will see in a light grey colour the version of the operating system running on your Mac — in this case it’s versions 10.6.8.
Click on the version number and it will change to the build number, this is handy but not what you’re looking for click again to see your Mac’s serial number.
System Profiler
The other way is to open the “System Profiler” — you can do that by clicking on the “More Info…” button in the “About This Mac” window or opening it in “Applications:Utilities:System Profiler”
System Profiler gives you lots of useful information including details about ram, processors and hard disks installed. The serial number we want is in the first section, called “Hardware” as shown below:
The other nice thing about the System Profiler is that you can copy the serial number and paste it directly in Apple’s Tech Specs page and it will find the page you want.
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