serial numbers

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...