Is this a good price for a older macbook pro?

[ibodybuild]

I'm looking at buying a previous model used macbook pro and below are the specs. The price he is asking is $1600. Is this a good price? Should I offer a lower price?

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2.53GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
250GB 5400-rpm hard drive
15.4-inch LED backlit Glossy widescreen display 1440 by 900 pixels
NVIDIA Ge Force 9400m and NVDIA GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
Built in iSight Video Camera
8x Slot loading Superdrive
Mini Display Port
SD card slot, firewire 800 port, 2 usb 2.0 ports
Backlit keyboard and ambient light sensor
Built in 7 hour battery has only 2 charge cycles on it

SOFTWARE

Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
iLife 2009
iWork 2009 and/or MS Office 2008 for Mac
Adobe Creative Studio 3 Design Premium
Toast Titanium 10
Quark XPress 8
Norton AntiVirus
Little Snitch

 

[spinnerlys]

www.mac2sell.net and eBay maybe a good way to see if the price is right.

But maybe also have a look at the refurbished section of the Apple Online Store.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=OTY2ODY3Nw

 

[vty]

Man I wouldn't pay anywhere near $1600 for that, the 9400M sucks.

 

[mbpjohnson]

Its only 200 less then a new base 15 inch not counting the software. Personally for 200 bucks I would go new but thats me and you don't say where your from.

Phil

 

[bestthereis27]

No way. I would try to save a bit longer and pay a few hundred dollars more for a new i5.

 

[ibodybuild]

Man I wouldn't pay anywhere near $1600 for that, the 9400M sucks.

What would you say would be a good price then?

 

[ibodybuild]

No way. I would try to save a bit longer and pay a few hundred dollars more for a new i5.

The only reason I'm staying away from the new i5/7's are because I have been hearing so many problems with them about heating, freezing, etc...!!! I'm from Canada btw.

 

[bestthereis27]

I would only pay between 1100-1200. I just sold my 2007 SR Macbook Pro 15" for $900.