How do you identify your Mac mini 1.83Ghz between MB138LL/A and MA608LL/A?

A friend of mine told me, in Taiwan, it is possible to have an old 1.83Ghz Mac mini when you wanted to buy a new 1.83Ghz Mac.
If I decide to buy a 1.83Ghz Mac mini, how do I know if it's the 1.83GHz Mac mini (MB138LL/A), not a 1.83Ghz [MA608LL/A] one?
How do I identify it?
We don't have a CPUID software for Mac OS, do we?

click on the apple button on the upper left hand of the screen.
click the first option (my mac is in german, so I dont know what the word is in english)
if it says "intel core 2 Duo" then you have a new one, and if it says "intel core duo" it is an old one

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