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Leon Kowalski

macrumors 6502a
No app required -- all you need is the serial number.

For example: W8733xxxxxx was built in 2007, week 33.

I believe the first 2 characters identify the assembly plant -- with "W8" being (Shanghai?) China.
I don't know the codes, but every iMac I've seen starts with "W8" -- so it's not very interesting.

My 20" ALU (Dud #1): W87313PEX86 = 2007, week 31
My 24" ALU (Dud #2): W873447ZX89 = 2007, week 34
My 20" white upgrade: W8733xxxxxx = 2007, week 33

...LOL, my "older model" white 20" is newer than the ALU 20" dud,

LK
 

SkyBell

macrumors 604
Sep 7, 2006
6,603
219
Texas, unfortunately.
It gave a 1.5 year range for my 24" imac

6/8/2007 - 12/8/2008

The iMac from the future:D


iBook's showing her age.:eek:

 

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Kuska

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 14, 2006
166
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Deep in The Weald, England
No app required -- all you need is the serial number.

For example: W8733xxxxxx was built in 2007, week 33.

I believe the first 2 characters identify the assembly plant -- with "W8" being (Shanghai?) China.
I don't know the codes, but every iMac I've seen starts with "W8" -- so it's not very interesting.

My 20" ALU (Dud #1): W87313PEX86 = 2007, week 31
My 24" ALU (Dud #2): W873447ZX89 = 2007, week 34
My 20" white upgrade: W8733xxxxxx = 2007, week 33

...LOL, my "older model" white 20" is newer than the ALU 20" dud,

LK


My first two Alu dud's were week 38's from Shanghai
The replacement received yesterday was a 41 from 'Unknown' :eek: but it was a BTO and although verging on the edge of 'dudd-ery' it is a lot better than the first two.

Hmmmmm.....I'm almost certain there must be bad 'birth' weeks on these machines.
 

valdore

macrumors 65816
Jan 9, 2007
1,262
0
Kansas City, Missouri. USA
My octocore Mac Pro was built between May 7 and May 13 2007. The Coconut doohickey can't tell the location, but I know this thing shipped from Shenzhen anyway.

A few months back I was in the Apple store for warranty work on my MacBook, and I asked when it was built, and the Genius was able to tell me down to the exact day - apparently they can see that type of info.
 

jml68

macrumors newbie
Mar 17, 2009
1
0
Happy birthday to my lamp-Mac!

Too lazy to post a screen-shot, but my trusty iMac G4 800 MHz turns 7 years old tomorrow! Nice little app...
 

bretph3

macrumors newbie
Jun 15, 2010
1
0
mine was built just a few months ago

I know I'm about a year behind the rest of these threads, but it's kind of exciting to know when and where my new iMac was built. :) She's my baby, all you Mac people out there know what I mean! I'll have this computer for the next 10 years practically, so I can celebrate it's 10 year birthday lol
 

dijidal

macrumors newbie
Jan 9, 2011
3
0
My new iMac's serial # begins with W8047.... i assume that the "0" refers to 2010, & the "47" refers to 47 weeks into 2010(June-ish 2010). when i ran "coconutIdentityCard 2.4" it came back with the dates, 20.11.2000 & 26.11.2000- this is impossible due to I just pulled this out of the sealed box yesterday....
 

MacHamster68

macrumors 68040
Sep 17, 2009
3,251
5
my iMac core duo was delivered in 2007 (receipt and original box so no refurb) but was build between 16.1.2006 and 22.1.2006 build in shanghai /china
and my oldest iMac G3 24.9.2001 and 30.9.2001 build in unknown
 
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