Product Review

Refurbished MacBook Pro with brand new upgraded parts: 8GB Memory / NEW 500GB SSHD (Fast Solid State Hybrid) Drive / Excellent Battery / Passed Apple Hardware Test / Fresh Installation of OS X 10.10 Yosemite / Unused Authentic 85W MagSafe power adapter. The MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.66 15" (SD - 2009/2010) features a 45 nm "Penryn" 2.66 GHz Intel "Core 2 Duo" processor (P8800), with two independent processor "cores" on a single silicon chip, a 3 MB shared "on chip" level 2 cache, a 1066 MHz frontside bus, 8 GB of DDR3 SDRAM, a 500 GB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid) hard drive, an 8X DL "SuperDrive", dual graphics processors -- a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with 256 MB of dedicated GDDR3 SDRAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory, integrated iSight, and an LED-backlit 15.4" widescreen TFT active-matrix "glossy" display (1440x900 native resolution). Connectivity includes AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Gigabit Ethernet, a Firewire "800" port, two USB 2.0 ports, optical digital/analog audio in/out, a "Mini DisplayPort" that supports an external display at 2560x1600, and an SD card slot. It lacks an ExpressCard/34 slot. This model uses esentially the same "Unibody" case design -- one milled from a single block of aluminum -- as the previous 15-Inch MacBook Pro models that the "Mid-2009" line replaced, and it has the same backlit keyboard and "no button" glass "multi-touch" trackpad with support for "four finger" gestures and programmable "zones", and a very similar internal architecture, but there are notable differences as well.