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Jobs era re-designed the boxes with chip generations, but there's always been sku complexity and naming consistency weirdness iMac SE / iBook SE iMac Aluminum

• raverbashing 8y ago
  Agreed. "Early 2014" is not a good model description
  • jandrese 8y ago
    This drives me crazy with Mac products. Would it kill Apple to print the damn hardware revision on the case? It doesn't have to be big, just a tiny line of text in the back corner that tells you exactly what hardware you have.
    • wool_gather 8y ago
      They do do this. There's a "Model A####"included in the tiny text on the back of iOS devices, and on the underside of laptops.
    • wtallis 8y ago
      My MBP says "Model A1502 EMC 2830" on the bottom. My iMac says Model A1207, EMC 2118. My old MBP is Model A1226, EMC 2136. These are short unique model identifiers and any web search will get you all the specs and spare parts you want. Apple has stopped including strings like "2.4GHz Core 2 Duo/2GB/256MB VRAM/160GB 5400rpm", but then only half of that is accurate for the machine I just read that off of, because of upgrades. (And that label was only accessible by pulling out the battery.)