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Worthy Trade?
- Thread starter lukoson
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It's a bad trade, period. Unibody doesn't have anything on discrete graphics and a better screen.
Does the mpb have applecare still left on it? Your machine should have the nvidia 8600 video card in it, which is widely reported to be problematic. If you still have applecare, game the sh#@ out of it before it expires to see if you can trade for a new one. 
If not, a trade for a unibody may be a good idea to avoid the problems with your video card.
If you feel exceptionally lucky, you could always put in more ram and a larger faster hd to breathe a little new life into your older machine.
If not, a trade for a unibody may be a good idea to avoid the problems with your video card.
If you feel exceptionally lucky, you could always put in more ram and a larger faster hd to breathe a little new life into your older machine.
Does the mpb have applecare still left on it? Your machine should have the nvidia 8600 video card in it, which is widely reported to be problematic. If you still have applecare, game the sh#@ out of it before it expires to see if you can trade for a new one.
If not, a trade for a unibody may be a good idea to avoid the problems with your video card.
If you feel exceptionally lucky, you could always put in more ram and a larger faster hd to breathe a little new life into your older machine.
If he has a problem with the video card, Apple provides an extended warranty for that sole problem(if he already has Applecare it's basically the same coverage). And even if it does fail, they're not gonna let him trade it in; they'll just fix it and return it.
