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Viewing system info before intial setup

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danochamp

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Mar 5, 2014
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I'm going to buy a used iMac today, the previous owner has just performed a clean install of Mavericks, meaning I'll have to go through the initial setup of the mac before I can use it.

I want to make sure it has all the advertised hardware however and we're meeting in a public place so I won't have internet access, is there any way to access the system info before going through the initial setup?

Thanks for any help.
 
DeltaMac

DeltaMac

macrumors G5
Jul 30, 2003
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You don't need to bring a bootable drive, Mavericks already has two.
Boot to the Recovery partition. You don't need to set up the system to boot to THAT.
Just power up, holding Command-R
You can check the hardware from the System Information.
 
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