Refurb Macbook Pro Retina production information

[patrickoneal]

I've searched and I've been unable to come up with an answer to my question.

I've recently ordered a Refurbished 15" rMBP 2.3/8gb/256gb. It came in this morning and it has the Samsung panel, and actually has 16gb of ram, which is a killer bonus. The battery has 11 cycles on it, and I'm curious how old it actually is. I've tried the serial number decoder here: http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html, but it doesn't show production date information and a lot of the stuff is blank. Is this because it's a refurb? Is there some other way to look up the information?

Thanks.

 

[Asuriyan]

CoconutBattery should give you the information you are looking for:

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

Also gives you some detailed battery stats. Useful little program.

 

[patrickoneal]

CoconutBattery should give you the information you are looking for:

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

Also gives you some detailed battery stats. Useful little program.

I just tried that and it indicated 5 weeks as the age. Where is everyone else getting all the detailed information from in the sticky thread?

 

[swerve147]

I've searched and I've been unable to come up with an answer to my question.

I've recently ordered a Refurbished 15" rMBP 2.3/8gb/256gb. It came in this morning and it has the Samsung panel, and actually has 16gb of ram, which is a killer bonus. The battery has 11 cycles on it, and I'm curious how old it actually is. I've tried the serial number decoder here: http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html, but it doesn't show production date information and a lot of the stuff is blank. Is this because it's a refurb? Is there some other way to look up the information?

Thanks.

Yeah, refurb units get a new serial number after the reconditioning process. Not sure how you would look up the original production info, though.