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How can I find the manufacture date of my PC? i.e. any of the key components like HD or CPU.

lshw, smartctl, lspci will tell me what I have installed but not how old it is.

teknopaul
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    Try dmidecode It could give you some clues – Jean-Marie Jan 11 '20 at 15:09
  • no dates in the output, I can post it if you like, what were you thinking would be visible? – teknopaul Jan 11 '20 at 21:12
  • It depends on the computer I suppose. On mine I got a bios date – Jean-Marie Jan 12 '20 at 03:03
  • The OEM Strings section might contain the date you're looking for: $ sudo dmidecode | grep -i -B1 -A8 "oem strings" – Broadsworde Dec 21 '20 at 19:50
  • Building on Jean-Marie's excellent advice above, something like this may work for many cases: sudo dmidecode | egrep '199[0-9]|20[0-3][0-9]' For host of reasons it's imprecise, will miss years that omit the century, and may reflect dates other than the manufacture date. But for crude estimation, possibly good enough! – Alan De Smet Aug 17 '21 at 18:51
  • When you have identified the CPU, you can check via the manufacturer's website. For example Intel: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark.html#@Processors – sudodus Apr 02 '23 at 16:47
  • @AlanDeSmet it worked but I don't know if the date is MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY – Arnaud Jan 11 '24 at 12:20

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