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Check Your Mac's Warranty Status

TMO Quick Tip - Check Your Mac's Warranty Status

by , 8:00 AM EST, February 3rd, 2006

Apple's support site has a useful little tool that tells you exactly how many days are left on your Apple product warranty, or on your AppleCare Protection Plan. To use it, fire up your favorite Web browser and go to Apple's support page. Enter your product serial number in the About Your Support Coverage field, and click Go. Apple checks its database, and tells you exactly how many days are left on your warranty or AppleCare plan.


Enter your Apple serial number here to check your warranty status.

The service works with any Apple product you have registered, including the PowerMac G5, iMac, PowerBook, iBook, iPod, and Apple accessories and displays.

If you aren't sure what your Mac's serial number is, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu. Now click on the version number just above the Software Update button to see the Mac OS X build number you currently have installed. Click one more time to show your Mac's serial number.


Click the Mac OS X version number to see the Tiger build number. Click once more to see your Mac's serial number.

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Close Name:DrDude Posts: 31 Joined: 04 Sep 2002
Subject: Wow!

I had no idea that the About This Mac window showed the serial number when you click the OS X version info. This will save me from launching the System Profiler every time AppleCare asks for my serial number.

Let's see, about 2.4 seconds to launch Profiler x 1 call per year to Apple x 3 Macs = 7.2 seconds of my life back.

Oh crap, 30 seconds to type this, I'm in the hole! I need 4.2 years to make up for this. At least I'm not sentenced to 4.2 years of Windoze.

Close Name:geoduck Posts: 1922 Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Subject:

This way of getting at your SN is awfully close to being an easter egg.

Of course I didn't know about the SN being in System Profiler either. I was still crawling around on the floor trying to read the tag in the dark under the desk.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Click "More Info..." to copy/paste Serial #!

I *always* do the following when needing my serial #:

1) From le Apple Menu, choose "About this Mac"
2) In the resulting window, click "More Info..."
- System Profiler launches and immediately shows the Serial #
3) Double-click the serial # to select it, then COPY it (Cmd-C)

You can now paste it where you'd like.

This, versus rearranging windows and mistyping the serial # yourself.

DrDude, do these steps and you'll get your 4.2 years plus back in 1 AppleCare call...!

MacSpudster
(Brian @ TMO won't gimme my password because he wants me to send an email from the IP address wherein I signed up. But I NO LONGER HAVE that ISP service, so I can't get that IP address! Hello, McFly?!!!!)

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Dashboard Widget

This sounds like a great idea for a future Dashboard Widget.

Are any Widgevelopers listening?

Dan

Close Name:Guest
Subject: My iMac G5

My iMac G5 shows no serial number, just hte words "serial number" centred and system profiler has a blank space after "serial number" too!?!??

Close Name:Intruder -   TMO Mac Specialist Posts: 3149 Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Subject: Re: My iMac G5

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Anonymous wrote:
My iMac G5 shows no serial number, just hte words "serial number" centred and system profiler has a blank space after "serial number" too!?!??


The Saturday Night Special of iMacs! Someone (digitally) filed off the serial number!

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Ser #

Doesn't work on my wife's eMac either.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Great Tip

What a great tip! I've got 560 days left of AppleCare on my iBook. Woohoo!!!

Close Name:gslusher Posts: 2088 Joined: 13 Nov 2002
Subject: Refurbished or replaced logic board = no serial number shown

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Guest wrote:
My iMac G5 shows no serial number, just hte words "serial number" centred and system profiler has a blank space after "serial number" too!?!??


Was your iMac refurbished? If the logic board was replaced, System Profiler and About this Mac will <B>not</B> show the serial number. The logic board on my 20-inch G4 iMac was replaced, so mine doesn't show the serial number, either. There may be other repairs that would cause this.

Close Name:DrShakagee -   TMO Forum Mod Posts: 941 Joined: 14 Jun 2001
Subject: Re: Click "More Info..." to copy/paste Serial #!

Quote
Anonymous wrote:
MacSpudster
(Brian @ TMO won't gimme my password because he wants me to send an email from the IP address wherein I signed up. But I NO LONGER HAVE that ISP service, so I can't get that IP address! Hello, McFly?!!!!)


I don't think Brian or Bryan for that matter has any control over this, it would be a phpbb limitation. Also you don't need the same IP address as that would make it impossible for people on dialup accounts with dynamic ip address to participate in these forums (which they do daily), you do need access to the same email address you signed up with though.

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