Check Mac Warranty (AppleCare) with Serial Number
Written on May 30, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 4 people have commented
My work is a Mac shop. Everyone has a Mac, some people even have two (desktop and laptop). Anyway, I recently decided to do an inventory to see what we had and what was/was not under warranty.
I started by making a Google docs spreadsheet and named it “Office Macs.” (Creative…I know). I then went around to each workstation and recorded the the type of mac, admin username & password, the OS version, GHZ, RAM, and serial number:
- Click the apple in the finder bar
- Click “About this Mac” (that will pop up a smaller window that tells you: OS Version, processor, Memory)
- Click “More Info” (that will pop up another window, which you can get the serial number from)
- Record all of this information in your Google doc
After you have all your info, you can go to this link, where all you do is input your serial number and country, and then click continue. After a few seconds you will be shown the type of Mac and the type of warranty on it. Have fun!
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#1 Ben says:You can also click on the OS version in the About This Mac window to find out the build number and serial number.
#2 Andy Moran says:You can save yourself some gathering information time with ssh and system_profiler command line tool. For example, to get the Serial number:
system_profiler | grep “Serial Number” | head -1
You could write a script that ssh’es to each box, and uses system_profiler to record the OS version, processor, and memory.
At my last job, we had a database of all the machines in house. We used scripts to gather information and update the database if the records were different.
#3 Philip from Australia says:For some reason I cannot get the serial numbers this way. This occurred after my system board was replaced. I was on a call to Apple about a different issues a while ago, and they were not surprised.
In the case of a Mac Book Pro, the serial number is under the battery. Then follow the above instructions to look it up.
Philip
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