Another serial number oddity to watch for
Prepping our laptops for year-end and Puppet installation has turned up another serial number oddity. On some MacBooks, the serial number under the battery does not match the internal serial number.
As part of the clean up and prep, per our school secretary, I have been writing the Eugene School District tag number under the battery. Many of the silver tags have lost the printed tag number and it has been a challenge to find the correct tag number.
Since I already have the battery out, I have been confirming that I have the correct laptop by comparing the serial number in the battery compartment to the one on my worksheets. Until today, they have matched. Then I found one that didn’t match. Booting the laptop and checking the internal serial number showed the number on my worksheet.
So far, I’ve only found the problem on Core Duo MacBooks, MID MacBook1,1.
This is the third serial number quirk I have found so far. I hope there aren’t any more!
