Section 12.1. About This Mac

12.1. About This Mac

The first place to go to get information about your system is the About This Mac menu , which brings up the panel shown in Figure 12-1. This simple panel shows you the kind of processor (or processors) in your Mac, the amount of memory you have installed, and your Mac's Startup Disk. You can even find out the exact build of Tiger you are running. Click the Version string in the panel, and it will change to the build number, such as 8C46. Click again, and you'll get the serial number of your systema valuable piece of information when you are on hold with AppleCare. But the information here is only the surface details. Click the More Info button and System Profiler will launch.