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Find out where your Mac was built
I'm sure that people often wonder where their Mac was all put together and made its first appearance to the world as an official Apple computer. coconutIdentityCard is a small application that will let you know where and when your Apple computer, and iPod were built. Your iPod has to be plugged into your Apple computer when the software is running in order for the system to figure out when and where it was built. When you enter your 11 character Apple serial number into the application, you will also see the the actual build location and the date the product was built by Apple. A great feature that coconutIdentityCard holds is the ability to cross reference your serial number with an online database of stolen Apple products. The only drawback is this app is only available for Mac OS X.
[Via CNet]
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Subscribe to commentsduke hafaSep 7th 2006 4:02PM
Yes! I love that tw flag very much.
JirahSep 7th 2006 6:50PM
Is that last sentence a joke? "only available for Mac OS X"? Do you really want a program to tell you where and when your Mac was built on your PC?
QwfwqSep 7th 2006 7:24PM
Lame. Now, if it supplied a video feed of the working conditions of the factory where the hardware was made, then it would be news worthy.
Grant RobertsonSep 7th 2006 7:32PM
@2: Actually, if you have an intel based mac, you might want to check while running XP under bootcamp. Yah, it's crazy to most of us.. but some people actually do run XP on a Macbook. Ubuntu runs on PPC, as does Debian, and a host of other unix like Linux and BSD based OSes. Macs are a heckofalot more versitile OS wise than they once were.
Chris GilmerSep 7th 2006 7:48PM
Yes Jirah, its a joke.
shadekhSep 7th 2006 10:50PM
well, considering that it tells where your ipod was built as well, it is quite a pitry it dosent work in windows, so yes, that last sentence is quite useful for non mac converts who have ipods.
Though, thanks to recent news, i can pretty much guess where my ipod was made
jamesSep 8th 2006 8:11PM
I would use that if my MacBook were not sitting in a repair center (two weeks and counting). How about an app that can tell me when I can get my MacBook back, AppleCare sure as hell can't. And they want $250 to extend this kind of service!?