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coconutIdentityCard
From the maker of coconutBattery comes coconutIdentityCard 1.1. This simple app tells you where and when your Mac, and connected iPod, were manufactured. This is great for people, like me, who are too lazy to try and figure out this information from their Mac's serial number. As you can see my 20 inch iMac hails from China and it was made between October 17th and 23rd. It takes time to cram this much computer into such a small space.
When and where was your Mac made?
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Robin said 12:47PM on 12-06-2005
Wow, My mini was made in America! Not taiwan or china!
Do they even still make things in America (Or England where im from)
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Brad said 2:08PM on 12-06-2005
My iBook was built in China from 1/08/05 to 7/08/05.
Whatever.
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Radu Dutzan said 1:19PM on 12-06-2005
My iMac G4 was made in Taiwan between 27/05/2002 and 02/06/2002, but it was bought in December (mostly because it had to travel from Taiwan, then to the USA and then here, to Chile)
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Alex M said 2:23PM on 12-06-2005
I'm in England but my Mini was made in America (like the first person)
Between 17th and 23rd Jan
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fra said 10:40AM on 12-07-2005
My Mac mini also came from the US - but made between 20/12/04-26/12/04. And I would like to add my mac never shipped with iLife '05.
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Michael Tyznik said 3:06PM on 12-06-2005
Where was your Mac built?
UNKNOWN
When was your Mac built?
Between
UNKNOWN
??
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Denis Boucher said 3:08PM on 12-06-2005
coconutIdentityCard is showing 'unknown' in both fields. I guess shouldn't have stripped the serial number when I stole that Titanium... But seriously, it doesn't know where and when it was built. Is my Mac is an orphan?
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Chris Dickens said 5:31PM on 12-06-2005
I'm in the UK and my mini was built in the USA too. Between 4 & 10th April 2005.
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Natrino said 3:49PM on 12-06-2005
There is another way to get this information. I believe it will show the exact build date and time if you start up while holding Apple+option+v+o, but I could be wrong about that key combo. I did while on the phone with Apple last week, and it appears to be some kind of command line, and I forget if the command for restart was restart, or something else.
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DerekJ said 4:28PM on 12-06-2005
Built in Taiwan
Between 9/9/01 and 9/14/01
I think I might need to buy a new one, although my 600mhz iBook is still a workhorse somehow...
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south said 4:42PM on 12-06-2005
I'm surprised, my Powerbook (bought in Tokyo and with a Japanese keyboard) was made in the USA. Not what I would have expected.
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Adam said 6:35PM on 12-06-2005
My mini's made in America and i live in England like the other guys.
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Kenneth said 10:01PM on 12-06-2005
My Dual PowerMac G4 is made in the USA between 20/01/2003 and 26/01/2003. *I bought it on 22 Feb 2003.
My iBook G4 1.33 is made in China between 18/07/2005 and 24/07/2005. *I bought it on 1 Aug 2005.
My 5G iPod is unknown between 24/10/2005 and 30/10/2005. *I bought it on 5 Nov 2005.
My iPod mini 4GB (Rev. A) is made in China between 20/09/2004 and 26/09/2004.
My original 10GB iPod (2G) is made in China between 12/08/2002 and 18/08/2002. *I bought it on 21 Aug 2002.
Looks like Apple products were flying off the shelf pretty quick.
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Trevor said 9:39PM on 12-06-2005
My iBook G4 was built in China between May 30th and April 6th. My iPod video was built in UKNOWN between October 5th and 10th.
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Daniel Gattermann said 1:47PM on 12-07-2005
I think the time period shown indicates the week in which your Mac was built. At least that's what you get if you look it up in iCal (or any ordinary calendar; Monday being the start of the week) and that's the only reason that makes sense why it takes every Mac seven days to be built ;-P
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Mark Gould said 4:46PM on 12-07-2005
Unlike everyone so far, my iMac was not built in the US or China, but Ireland (Cork, to be precise) between 20 and 26 June 2005. My iPod was obviously a mate of Kenneth's, as it was built in China between 20 and 26 September 2004.
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teece said 2:55AM on 12-08-2005
My iMac G5 Rev A. 1.6 Ghz was built in Shanghai, China in the 49th week of Dec. '04. It was number 5639 off the assembly line (use the web tool provided in the previous link).
But this tool shows mine as ??. You know why? I just got it back from the Apple store today. They had it to swap out the power supply and logic board. If I open 'System Profiler.app' I see that it no longer knows my serial number. I bet something similar is up with you other folks -- repair items don't have an imprinted serial number (wherever it's stored; the boot ROM, I imagine).
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