Find The Level Of Cover For Your Mac 4
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Making sure your Mac or other Apple product is top notch is a must. You have spent a lot of money and you want to make sure the warranty is up to scratch. Since I have a poor memory I can never remember when my warranty will run out. Apple have provided a cool webpage which you can use to check the level of your Apple Care. In this post I will show you how to check it, plus a couple of tips and tricks.
The first place to check out is the Online Service Assistance. Notice the first option is to add you serial number. The quickest way of finding you serial number is to run the following in Terminal.
ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber | awk '{ print $4 }'
This will display your serial number in quotes. Copy this alphanumeric number into the text box an hit ok.
This will give you information about your Mac, plus when your Apple Care will run out. Very useful. You also have other information such as where to fix your Mac and useful phone numbers.
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4 Responses to “Find The Level Of Cover For Your Mac”
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A script that does it all:
http://www.nd.edu/%7Esrussel2/macintosh/bash/warranty.txtComment By Mikael on June 14th, at 6:37 pm
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A Mac’s serial number is also provided in the System Profiler, under Hardware Overview.
Comment By DCJ001 on June 14th, at 7:57 pm
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Thanks for the script Mikael. @DCJ001, I know you can find it there, but it is lot easier to get access to it this way.
Comment By admin on June 14th, at 7:58 pm
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There are a lot of different ways to do a lot of things.
For me, to access the System Profiler and obtain my Mac’s serial number, I press the Option key, click on the Apple at the top left corner, and select System Profiler. The Hardware Overview, showing the serial number, appears automatically.
Either way.
Thanks for the Mac Tips & Tricks and please keep them coming.
Comment By DCJ001 on June 14th, at 10:54 pm
