"About my Mac" problem

[h.gabor6810]

Dear People!

A few days ago, I noticed that on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) High Sierra, the "About my Mac" preference pane does not display the exact type of computer with the year as you can see on the attached picture. What is causing this? Today, I installed a fresh High Sierra system in a completely official way - from a usb drive, on a completely wiped/repartitioned ssd drive - and the phenomenon persisted.

 

[rm5]

In my experience, if the Mac isn't connected to the internet, the year/model won't show, but I don't know if that's the problem. I've also read elsewhere that sometimes that info won't show up because you're using third-party internal components and/or it's a build-to-order machine.

 

[h.gabor6810]

In my experience, if the Mac isn't connected to the internet, the year/model won't show, but I don't know if that's the problem. I've also read elsewhere that sometimes that info won't show up because you're using third-party internal components and/or it's a build-to-order machine.

Its always connected to the Internet - both with cable and wifi. And its hardware didn't changed in any way.

 

[bogdanw]

"WTF - Wrong Year on 'About This Mac'" https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/wtf-wrong-year-on-about-this-mac.2381186/

"System information/About this mac ... wrong info !" https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-information-about-this-mac-wrong-info.1341951/

"Wrong Macbook Model Displayed." https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/wrong-macbook-model-displayed.1743533/

"About This Mac/System Report displaying incorrect info" https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/about-this-mac-system-report-displaying-incorrect-info.1976950/

 

[DeepYogurt]

Dear People!

A few days ago, I noticed that on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) High Sierra, the "About my Mac" preference pane does not display the exact type of computer with the year as you can see on the attached picture. What is causing this? Today, I installed a fresh High Sierra system in a completely official way - from a usb drive, on a completely wiped/repartitioned ssd drive - and the phenomenon persisted.

If you look at a System Report (click the System Report button at the bottom of the About This Mac window), does it show the "Model Identifier" info correctly? Your post doesn't say which MacBook Pro (13, 15 or 17") but also there were two 2011 MacBook Pro releases - one in February and one in October. One program I use a lot to help with Apple systems and all their hardware and software details, is called MacTracker (it's free from https://mactracker.ca).

Am guessing the Model Identifier is something like MacBookPro8,1 or MacBookPro8,2 or MacBookPro8,3 for the 13", or 15" or 17" models from 2011, but just noticed that MacTracker has the same model id info for both the early and late 2011 versions. Not sure if this is correct or not - as it seems odd that two separate sets of system releases would have the same identifiers. Maybe someone could double check the model identifier values for both early and late 2011 versions of MacBook Pro systems and see if that is indeed the case.

Good luck...

-bob