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How to find manufacture date

I found out when and where my MBP was made. Mine works great and the hinge is fine which I was most worried about. It appears mine was built about 3 weeks ago and I can imagine after all the feedback problems they might have tightened it up and also paid more attention to fingerprints since I don"t have any like others are reporting. It shows over 8000 made in a week which I imagine is not full production so there might be multiple factories, but I really have no clue. It was made in week 41 so its right off the assembly line. Curious to see if there are other factories in different cities. That could give some insight to why some are having problems with hinges and some not. Or maybe it's because it's so new. I intentionally left off the serial number here. Link to see yours can be found at:

http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html

Serial number: -----------
Name: MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
Model: Mxxxx MacBook Pro 2.53GHz
Screen size: 15 inch
Memory - number of slots: 2
Factory: W8 (Shanghai China)
URL: Technical specifications by apple-history.com code tonumber: 779 -

Model introduced: 2008
Production year: 2008
Production week: 41 (October)
Production number: 8339 (within this week)

G5 Tower, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Nov 2, 2008 5:11 AM

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Nov 2, 2008 8:46 AM in response to eastvillager

This is the result for mine :

Serial number:
Name: MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
Model: Mxxxx MacBook Pro 2.4GHz
Memory - number of slots: 2
Factory: W8 (Shanghai China)
URL: Technical specifications by apple-history.com code tonumber: M5B -

Model introduced: 2008
Production year: 2008
Production week: 41 (October)
Production number: 24457 (within this week)

I don't think there is another factory somewhere else in the world other than in Shanghai.

Message was edited by: jlocalled

Nov 25, 2008 5:00 AM in response to eastvillager

This is what I got...

Serial number: W884589B1GA
Name: MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
Model: Mxxxx MacBook Pro 2.53GHz
Screen size: 15 inch
Memory - number of slots: 2
Factory: W8 (Shanghai China)
URL: Technical specifications by apple-history.com code tonumber: 89B - W884589B1GA

Model introduced: 2008
Production year: 2008
Production week: 45 (November)
Production number: 9565 (within this week)

I got my MBP slightly more than a week ago. Never had any problems with it so far. Wifi is so much better than my old HP DV9000 Pavilion.

How to find manufacture date

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