I had a brand new 2009 MBP around the time of its release in order to work on some software for several weeks. If you intend to play games or do very CPU inten

I had a brand new 2009 MBP around the time of its release in order to work on some software for several weeks. If you intend to play games or do very CPU intensive things, you may be disappointed. If you're doing typical developer tasks, you'll be fine. Big compiles will probably be slow, but outside of that, I don't see any problems. The 2009 17" MBP, outside of the crippled keyboard was the best laptop experience I've had.