Does your Student Union have a computer store that sells Macs? I've bought my refurb MBP from my Union computer store this time last year and only paid $899. I asked them how they could sell them so cheap and the guy working there told me they were sent to them from Apple in a small quantity (100 if memory serves me). Now granted, it is a core duo and not a C2D but it does any and everything I want it to do. The only problem I've had is the battery crapped the bed a couple of months ago but it was replaced for free under the one year warranty.