The MacBook Pro 17 inches is in a way a "legacy" Apple product. Apple has not made/sold a 17 inches notebook computer since about mid-2010, having discontinued the line of notebooks to which this MBP belongs about at the time of the release of this last member of that class.
This is a great machine, with a size of the screen ideal for professionals depending on a large size screen for sufficient screen real estate in their daily work (and play). I am impressed with the performance of this MBP today, three years after the product's official release.
The expected Apple quality and beauty and simplicity of design and the known Apple reliability and expectation of a long lasting pleasant computer experience (slower obsolescence) all gather in this MBP 17 inches. The processor speed and memory size are great today for professional usage, even after three years from release. For a computer that is three years old (albeit sold "as new" being Apple refurbished) the battery life is as impressive as the one of its much younger sister MBP 13 inch non-retina (released mid-2012).
The MBP 17 inches comes with OS X Snow Leopard, which lacks some improvements in the OS X introduced since (through Lion and Mountain Lion), but which is a solid pleasant OS with tons of valuable advantages of its own (if one can be satisfied with an OS two releases behind the current curve). An update to OS X Mountain Lion should be quite simple and no problem at all.
Unfortunately, Apple does not manufacture a current equivalent of this MBP 17 inches anymore. It would be nice if they continued (or restarted) a 17 inches line of portables.
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