Decoding SNs

[rprosperi]

I've found that the warranty checker hardly ever provides useful results, even for quite new units. I bought a Prime G2 several months ago, it had no idea.

The 32SII should be clear; what is the SN?

Overall, they still generally follow the guidelines for later machines with some tweaks.

For later machines, they use factory codes instead of country codes, and these have never been revealed, though it is believed those beginning with "C" are in China, etc. Also, for the unit number produced that week, they switched to an alphanumeric scheme to hide the number of units produced during the particular week; several reasons for the switch to alphanumeric have been suggested (not enough units using only numbers, hiding produced qty, etc.) but none have ever been officially acknowledged. I chose a cynical choice above...