Haven't posted in a while, but just received a nice conquest. It's a 17" MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa) (2007-2008). It had an "Exploded" battery, so I received it from a friend for free. Bought a new battery for it (About $15) and i have a nice machine! Upgraded the RAM from 2 to 3 GB, plan to upgrade it to 4GB eventually, just had the parts laying around to upgrade it to 3GB right away. Dumped a 320GB HD in it, Installed OS X Mavericks, and its running great! By the way, I do know about the 8600M GT in these models frequently failing, and am hoping it doesn't happen to this machine anytime soon. But if it does, oh well, it cost me $15 total, so not a huge loss... Well, I'm happy for now!