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Is there a way to check, based on that, if the battery is ok or not? Some serial number, some Device Name…and stuff like that.

So, my question is: is there a way to tell if the battery inside the machine is genuine? I went to About This Mac -> System Report -> Power, and there is a bunch of information in there. But again, I don’t know how long did the previous owner have it for, or if he replaced the battery.

When I bought it, it had about 30 charging cycles. And I don’t know (I don’t think so…but again, I can’t possibly know for sure) if the battery has been replaced or not. The thing is that I bought this machine second-hand. In other words, my particular machine is not affected by the issue. Now, I’ve already checked my serial number here and it came back negative. Unfortunately, as you probably heard, this generation seems to have some battery issues, which determined Apple to start a recall program. So about 3 years ago, I bought a 15” mid-2015 Retina MBP and had absolutely no issues with it.