Do you know where your Mac was born?

by Mike Ricciuti

Do you know where your Mac or iPod came from?

A freeware application called coconutidentityCard will tell you where your Apple product was built and when.

As a bonus, the software also checks the serial number of your machine against an Internet database of known stolen Mac serial numbers.

Plug an iPod it into a Mac running the software, and coconutidentityCard will show you where and when your device was built. Sorry iPod shuffle users: the software doesn't yet support those devices.

CoconutidentityCard requires Mac OS 10.3.9 and a Mac made in or after 1997. It will work with newer Intel-based Macs, too.

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