Accessing history of an e-bay iBook using the serial number.
hi all
i'm looking at an iBook G3 (M6497) on e-bay at the moment and I got the seller to send me the serial number so that I could take a wee peek at the history of the machine. The seller kindly sent me the serial number, but how / where do I enter this number to access data on the history of this machine? I'm kinda new to MacWorld, so any help or advice at all would be very much appreciated.
Cheers all
Steve k
Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
The only thing you can really tell by the serial number is when the warranty expired (if that helps). This will give you the original purchase date and whether or not AppleCare was purchased on it.
Enter the serial number in the box on this page:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do
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