A good recommendation for a older Macbook Pro for Photo editing?

[Gavbo]

Hi Everyone,

While I would love to buy the latest and greatest macbook pro, I simply cant justify spending that kind of money that apple is asking for on system. Made that mistake once on a new 17" 1.67ghz and lost 40% only after a year.

So I am considering an older second hand macbook pro, which I think would do me fine, so the question is which 15"/17" is better for pholo editing. I dont even mind going pre unibody too (but I do like to the 2 finger scrolling)

In addition I was thinking about getting into Aperture 3 but it seems a little power intensive so are there any alternative photo editing application that is more resourceful so I dont need the state of the art system to run on?

Thanks in advance

 

[Hellhammer]

I would take a look at refurbs, the low-end 15" for 1349$ is a good deal. Aperture ain't very intensive, just get 4GB RAM (most have it already) and you'll be fine.