The data of the Mac Mini bought on Apple's official website is the refurbished machine sent to me??
by Poster
May 1, 2025
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After booting it for a day, I saw it using the SMART Utilities tool
Data Units Read 726GB
Data Unites Written 645GB
Power Cycles 142
Power On Hours 8
Unsafe Shutdown 11
There is no problem checking the serial number, but it shows that it is not an official machine.
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Anonymous1788 May 1, 2025If you have any problems, you should quit immediately. Don't hesitate. There is no reason for 14 days to be watched. Even if you change it to a new one, it will be good.
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Anonymous1854 May 1, 2025It is also a returned machine
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Anonymous8420 May 1, 2025Where do you think the returned goods from various manufacturers have gone 🤣
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Anonymous42 May 1, 2025Send it to me by express, and I'll get you a new one.
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Anonymous2897 May 1, 2025The same is true of my Macmini when I got it. I guess that's how it works normally?
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Anonymous7746 May 1, 2025@ Anonymous2897 mine is not, mine just got the battery cycle is 2
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Anonymous14185 May 1, 2025It turns out that you can also buy such a machine on the official website
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Anonymous2897 May 1, 2025@ Anonymous7746 is not talking about the battery, it is the SSD smartctl shows the usage of the SSD and has nothing to do with the battery
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Anonymous8944 May 1, 2025My dusty mac mini m4 now has a write capacity of only 45GB
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Anonymous2522 May 1, 2025So did mine. It has been discussed before, many of them are like this, it is estimated that it is normal
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Anonymous1966 May 1, 2025@ Anonymous8420 What Apple returns is not directly re-sold....
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Anonymous99 May 1, 2025Fortunately, I bought it on the official website. It's really hard to explain if I bought it through the channel. If you buy a brand new machine on the official website, you will not be sent a refurbished machine. The test results of SMART Utilities or other third-party software are for reference only and cannot be used as credentials. For example: Apple had built-in T2 chips in products during the intel era, which were used as encryption and replaced the main control of the hard disk. During this period, the data read by SMART Utilities was all wrong. Apple changed the master control and encryption logic many times in its products during the M chip period. AlDente, the software that optimizes charging, doesn't work properly on the M3 series, and the information it reads is inaccurate because Apple replaced the power module. --- Third-party software, after all, is a third party. If you have any problems, go directly to the direct store for testing. If you buy it from the official website, I don't think it is necessary to even go to the direct store. What should you worry about if you buy it from the official website?.. --- However, although the official website will not send you a refurbished machine, quality control problems may still occur. The worst situation I have seen: buying a MacBook Pro, printing a MacBook Air under the screen, serious assembly problems. This kind of quality control problem of the assembly line may be encountered by any product and any channel. For example, the side skirts on both sides of Mercedes-Benz have different specifications, and the seat belts of BMW are installed backwards. I have also encountered it. This is a factory quality control problem. --- Stakeholders: Apple Resellers
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Anonymous99 May 1, 2025However, this time I prefer that the data is accurate. It should be that the amount of testing in the assembly line is a bit large.
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Anonymous46 May 1, 2025Apple officials won't do this kind of thing. Even from the perspective of interests, Apple officials still have 10,000 ways to clean up the return machine, such as making it an official translation and giving it to a third-party dealer. Take a step back and say that even if Apple wants to sell the return machine as a new machine, the factory can easily clear the equipment information, and there is no need to give you an excuse at all
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Anonymous4808 May 1, 2025Why are you looking up this? You are adding trouble to yourself. Just use it blindly
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Anonymous12299 May 1, 2025I bought an iPod touch 6 on the official website about 8 years ago. I returned it because the flash was loose. At that time, I wrote down the SN and checked it later. The silver machine was replaced with a blue one
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Anonymous107 May 1, 2025If you mind, just 14 days without reason
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Anonymous438 May 2, 2025@ Anonymous99 SMART is a standard protocol. If you don't want to support it, you can directly not support it. If you support it, you deliberately return wrong data, causing customers to misunderstand the return and word-of-mouth, and the loss can only be borne by the manufacturer itself
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Anonymous339 May 2, 2025The Power Cycles and Power On Hours displayed by smartctl on Mac are wrong, and you will find that these two numbers keep jumping after using them for a while
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Anonymous10552 May 2, 2025How do I check if it's refurbished?