Obviously you'll get better hardware, the CPU in the 2009 will run faster and cooler, the chipset can handle more RAM, the GPU is much better than the old ATI cards (though some might debate reliability) as well as being supported by OpenCL in Snow Leopard, the screen is higher resolution, the HDD is easier to replace, and the battery will be in much better shape out of the box. Who knows what condition a battery would be in at this point for a 3 year old laptop, and new batteries aren't cheap. Search: Purple Lines Across Macbook Pro Screen. Those things don't last forever, and mine is definitely not getting the life it used to, I think it's somewhere in the 80% for battery health, and that's been me taking pretty good care of it. Accidental damage to the Apple-branded stand and/or VESA mount used with your Apple-branded display will be treated as external enclosure-only accidental damage. My biggest concern about buying the 2006 would be the battery. The 2006 does have the advantage of having more ports, so take that into consideration. It also has a larger trackpad with more multitouch gestures, whereas the 2006 can only do 2 finger scrolling. The 2009 has an LED lit screen, so lower power consumption and better color. When I physically measure the screen, it's about 3.62px/mm Obviously that's not incredibly accurate - but it is useful in giving a web developer a rough idea of physical screen size. The keyboards are different but not enough that I'd say one is better than the other. On Linux, I got these results with the three main rendering engines: Chrome: 5.14px/mm. This is on the LCD- havent tested it on a monitor yet. First off, the Unibodys have much better build quality, holding one just feels solid. I turned on the MBP today (Mid-2007 Santa Rosa) and everything was going fine- until the screen started to jump Literally the whole display bounces constantly, revealing a white line at the top of the screen (as if trying to center the screen or something). If money were no object, I'd take the 2009 MBP over the 2006. I have a 2006 MBP (assuming you're referring to the ones that first had the Core 2 Duos in them, as opposed to the Core Duos).
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