Device serial number lookup

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Device serial number lookup

I recently purchased a "refurbished" Airport Extreme Gen. 5. It came with no documentation and hermetically sealed in plastic, secured in bubble wrap and foam peanuts (Oh no. The enviro weenies will after this shipper.) I was concerned that I even received a gen. 5 let alone a refurbished unit. For what ever reason, Apple chose not to emblazoned the model number on their devices. Not even on the label near the serial number.

So I went on the hunt as to how I can verify that this is an A1408 Airport Extreme. After about an hour poking around on the Internet I finally found this site. There may be others but this one worked for me.

You can enter the serial number of any Apple device and find all the details about your specific unit.

http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/

Cheers,

YM

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 4GB installed

Posted on May 3, 2014 10:01 AM

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arsen32

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May 3, 2014 10:06 AM in response to Yosemite Man

Pretty sure this is a phishing post. DO NOT GO HERE AND ENTER YOUR SERIAL NUMBER.

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Yosemite Man Author

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May 4, 2014 4:57 AM in response to Yosemite Man

I'm certain that arsen32 doesn't know what they're talking about.

I posted this helpful information because I found no help in the Apple discussions or elsewhere to help people identify used units they aquired such as Airport Extreme devices.

Of course one can use Mactracker (http://mactracker.ca/) to lookup a serial number by creating a "New My Model..." which takes you to this Apple site (https://selfsolve.apple.com/). An Apple User login may be required. But this takes more steps just to look a serial number.

Reguards.

YM 😝

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