WTF - Wrong Year on 'About This Mac'

[paul_bace]

So this is new...

Picked up a sweet deal today from a store that listed this Top Spec 2015 15" MBP at 2012 prices. It's obviously a 2015 from the GPU/Specs BUT...

When I picked it up OPLP was used for a fresh Ventura install. I assumed OCLP was causing the wrong year to show up.

Now I'm home, drive wiped, fresh Big Sur, and it's still listing as 2012.

HOW??

Everything is working, and I'm logged into iCloud no problem. '11,5' showing up everywhere it needs to be and all other specs presenting as 2015.

 

[Lihp8270]

"About this Mac" showing wrong year

I bought a new 15" retina MBP earlier this year, with the discrete GPU M370X that was released this year. However, "About this Mac" claims that it's a Mid 2014 model. Is it just a glitch or does an...

apple.stackexchange.com

 

[paul_bace]

"About this Mac" showing wrong year

I bought a new 15" retina MBP earlier this year, with the discrete GPU M370X that was released this year. However, "About this Mac" claims that it's a Mid 2014 model. Is it just a glitch or does an...

apple.stackexchange.com

Sorry but that page neither explains how, or what has caused this in any language I can decipher. If you understand it, perhaps you can elaborate? From my experience, I might assume it's from a board reprogram (I've had to do one after I sent a board to be repaired once). And it's been programmed incorrectly?

 

[bogdanw]

Reset NVRAM https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

 

[Bigwaff]

"About this Mac" showing wrong year

I bought a new 15" retina MBP earlier this year, with the discrete GPU M370X that was released this year. However, "About this Mac" claims that it's a Mid 2014 model. Is it just a glitch or does an...

apple.stackexchange.com

The page explains it is a localization issue. When they changed the locale to a different one, e.g. Swedish, the year in the About dialog changed to the correct model year.

 

[bogdanw]

If resetting NVRAM doesn't solve the issue, check the EFI partition for traces of OCLP.
How to mount the EFI partition https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...showing-prohibited-sign.2380450/post-31965034

 

[paul_bace]

I've most recently tried a completely different Apple SSD without Opencore ever installed. NVRAM Reset on install.

I've also tried changing languages several times.

Ultimately this isn't something that matters, I'm just super curious as to why/how this has happened, and if it's something that can be reversed/fixed.

 

[bogdanw]

If you check the serial number on https://checkcoverage.apple.com/ what model does it return?