Bought a macbook aluminum
I've got a couple questions regarding this new macbook:
So I bought it used off of someone from craigslist. It's in pretty good shape, but missing a handful of screws (all the screws on the inside, once the bottom plate is taken off, 4 in total... and 1 of the screws on the bottom, outside). I went to an apple store, and they told me they didn't have any spare screws... where do you get them?
Also, when I click the apple icon in the top left corner, and go to 'about this mac', and it says I've got a 2.26ghz processor... I thought these only came in 2.0 and 2.4?
Just took a look. It says "macbook 5,1". Oddly enough, I did a lookup on the serial number on the apple website; no such serial found.
Bizarre....
Any thoughts? I'm not too upset about it. It works great; no issues thus far.
Here's a copy/paste:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MB51.0058.B02
SMC Version: 1.32b4
Serial Number: <deleted>
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Message was edited by: rleechb
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