Thanks guys, that's been a great help. I really appreciated the advice.
What I'm torn between now is buying one from apple, eBay, or I believe apple do 'service built' or something, where they sell ones for a bit cheaper.
I haven't looked into that yet, am I right in thinking these ones are mac book pros that people have had had problems with and apple have rebuilt them?
eBay clearly has it's own risks, if I can save a few hundred by getting one on eBay I might do that.
I was wondering with the hard drive, is that user-replaceable? I was thinking I could get the smallest size drive then buy my own SSD and put that in it's place.
Any thoughts on all the above are more than welcome

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