![]() You should now be fully equipped to answer even the toughest questions regarding your specific setup. We've just gone over four different methods of learning all about your Mac, from the operating system to the minor components and beyond. Here you can enter the serial number that we found earlier and you'll be taken to a series of pages that informs you of not only your warranty information but also the service options that you have available to you, all based on your unique serial number. Getting a complete system profile in Terminal is actually pretty easy, all you need to do is type "system_profiler" and hit enter. As long as you do your research and are confident in the consequences of the commands that you're typing in, you should be fine. Though you can indeed get into a decent amount of trouble in Terminal, for the most part, it's not half as scary as people make it out to be. ![]() Unfortunately, for some, Terminal seems like an intimidating place where a small typo can have disastrous effects. I happen to know that the RAM on my Retina MacBook Pro is actually soldered onto the logic board and is therefore non-upgradeable, but Apple does nothing to inform me of that here! This is an important lesson: the System Information app is great, but it certainly doesn't tell you all that you need to know.Īny time you really want to dig into something technical, odds are Terminal can provide you with the information that you're looking for. Unfortunately, this link doesn't take me anywhere but the Apple Support home page. I happen to know that the RAM on my Retina MacBook Pro is actually soldered onto the logic board and is therefore non-upgradeable, but Apple does nothing to inform me of that here! It also shows me that my Mac takes 1600 MHz DDR3 memory and gives me a link for the upgrade instructions. The Memory tab shows me that I have 16GB of RAM installed, 8GB in each of my two available slots. Note that there's also a link here to open Disk utility, another vital source of information about your hardware. This shot shows me that I have over 40GBs in photos that I could offload to an external hard drive to save space on my Mac. ![]() This is a fantastic way to get a quick look at what's eating up your hard drive space. As you can see, Apple has picked up the graph that iTunes uses to analyze the storage on your iOS device and applied it to your hard disk. ![]()
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