I was skeptical about buy and outdated computer, but even for a 6 year old computer, it is beautiful. Durable housing makes it last longer. The high-res screen is amazing.I didn't buy this laptop from Amazon, but from Apple. I stumbled upon this and felt compelled to pay my respects.
I've been using this laptop solidly for 5 years, and it shows no signs of slowing down. It supports all the latest software and runs it well. OS X Mavericks even works on it, and the next OS probably will as well.
Comparing this previous gen MBP to some other brand New PC laptops leaves you with the impression that it's STILL more luxurious, even now. The trackpad, while smaller than brand new MacBooks, is unparalleled in the PC world.
The 17" display was so far ahead of its time, even today you're not likely to find a 22 or 24 inch display that matches the 1920x1200 resolution. This thing was the closest thing to "retina" before "retina" was a thing. And the availability of matte screens is a rare luxury these days and missed.
Once you put an SSD in this thing it's competitive with most entry level new MacBooks on most actual use metrics. This beast came with the larger L2 cache and other higher end underpinnings, so it's stood the test of time extremely well. It's 8600m gt video card was a BEAST when it was released, and remains more powerful than some entry level MacBooks because it's a discrete GPU rather than some chipset. It can also support 6 Gb (Not 4 like Apple says) of ram. 1x4 Gb stick and 1x 2Gb stick.
It's also possible to create a "Fusion Drive" (Which debuted with OSX Mountain Lion) which is a system level SSD HDD drive fusion by switching out the superdrive for a hard drive caddy so you can have SSD speed and HDD large capacity and not worry what goes where.
All in all, this absolute BEAST of a portable workstation is a bygone from an era where Apple made 17" Laptops. They no longer carry any MacBooks in 17 inches, and that's a shame. It really is nice having FULL productivity when mobile.
Long live 17" MBP.
Apple 17" MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB / 512 VRAM /200GB ATA DRIVE @ 7200 RPM HIGH-RESOLUTION
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on Tuesday, October 1, 2013
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