Can apple track a computer through its ip address?

so i have a friend who got a computer stolen ( i dont really know how) so know we were trying to figure out how to track it ( if its posible im not a computer expert) so how could we? I heard about something called an ip adress? could we use that?

If it is a Mac and this was enabled use that.
http://www.apple.com/uk/support/icloud/find-my-device/

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