How do I find out info about my G4, where bought it, cost etc

Question

I need information about my G4. I bought it new some years ago but have no longer got the records of my purchase. Where can I find out those details please? The store was in Penrith, but not an Apple store as such. Even the name of the business would be helpful. Thanks.

Answer 1

You could check the location of the business against the Apple - Find Locations
database through Apple Support, to see if any existing independent authorized
Apple resellers appear familiar to you.
Australia
Find Apple Locations for: Sales, Service, Training, Certification, & Consulting.
Enter the city name to help locate nearest authorized Apple business locations.
The above flag icon and country name should be an active link to this URL:
https://locate.apple.com/au/en/
An example of the output the above may provide, is in this link from the Service
location (click on one of four boxes, and add city name, if not a nearby location)
to see a map of the vicinity; in this case authorized Service in Penrith, Australia:
https://locate.apple.com/au/en/service/?pt=4&lat=-33.7521785&lon=150.69104670000002
There are approximately 23 Apple authorized Service locations near Penrith
New South Wales, Australia; to see an other list of possible choices, look in
to the Sales section from the locate link for Australia, instead Service. Some
of the 99 authorized Sales locations also offer specialists, & other experts...
https://locate.apple.com/au/en/sales/?pt=4&lat=-33.7521785&lon=150.69104670000002
In the course of a decade, business names can change or no longer exist; so
even if you did recollect a name that was an authorized Apple reseller, or one
who also provided service, or other support, they'd not have kept records of
each individual sale to now, since that time.
If you kept the original computer carton, those sometimes had the address
and name of the reseller, along with shipping information, on the outside.
Any original receipts, warranty, or bank payment records from the time, you
may have set aside from the purchase, are where you'd find details you ask.
The reason for needing to know the detailed information about the computer,
if explained, may be an easier way to go. What technical or product question
do you have a need to know, at this late a date? Some online databases are
still available, but not ones specific to your singular purchase; even if it were
registered with Apple when new, under warranty considerations at the time.
If you registered the computer with Apple for warranty or AppleCare consideration
at the time of purchase, that in itself would not be enough to pinpoint the store
you bought it from. The Apple Support section may give you minimal info on a
list of former purchases that were sold to you, going back several years, online.
Hopefully you have some researchable technical questions that someone here
in these user-to-user (or peer-based) discussions, can help you with; since the
product is vintage or obsolete, as the trail is quite cold on tracking the item now.
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing!