Where can I find my MBP's logic board Apple ID?

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Where can I find my MBP's logic board Apple ID?

Hi everyone,

Just out of curiosity, and in case my 2006 MacBook Pro should decide to send another logic board to electronic equipment heaven, I'd like to know how/where to get the Apple ID for the logic board that's installed on it, with the following two provisions (bear with here, OK?):

1) I don't want to have to open my MBP (been there, done that, can still feel the sweat under my armpits); and

2) I don't want to invest even the minimum amount of money in the operation.

I suppose there's a way to know which kind of logic board (ie, its Apple ID) is installed in my machine. I just don't know how...

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jul 17, 2011 10:57 AM

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Answer 1

sig

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Jul 17, 2011 11:39 AM in response to FrenchToast

Check here:

http://www.ifixit.com/

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Answer 2

FrenchToast Author

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Jul 17, 2011 11:48 AM in response to sig

Thanks, sig! I've already been there, and I couldn't find the exact ID of the logic board; there was an interesting article about taking a MBP same as mine apart, but no clear references as to the components ID. I just checked in About this Mac on my machine, and I got the following under the Hardware tag line:

Numéro de série (système) : SystemSerialNumb

UUID du matériel : 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB8D1949

(sorry about the French words...)

Could the UUID line be the one I'm looking for?

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Allan Jones

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Jul 17, 2011 11:59 AM in response to FrenchToast

I think the Model Identifier from System Profiler's Hardware Overview will suffice. It's the second line below:

You can get this screen by doing "About this Mac..." from your Apple menu and, in the resulting window, click the "More Info..." button.

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FrenchToast Author

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Jul 17, 2011 12:13 PM in response to Allan Jones

OK, thanks, that must be it, I guess. I can't see any trace of another ID anyway. By the way, do you know how come I've got two Ethernet cards listed in my System Profiler? 😕

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Jan 4, 2014 5:42 PM in response to FrenchToast

This is where you'll find logicboard / board id numbers: http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks, click on the mac you want to view, then its this no not including PVT.

Motherboard

Apple Inc. Mac-F4208CAA PVT

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Answer 6

Mar 23, 2017 11:22 AM in response to FrenchToast

You can use the following terminal commands to determine the model and board ID of your computer:

sysctl hw.model | awk '{ print $2 }'

ioreg -l | awk -F\" '/board-id/ { print $4 }'

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