A good friend of mine is having health problems and needs to sell his MBP to raise funds. Here's what he sent me. He lives in the DFW area. His email is headshep at gmail dot com.

This 2011 17 in MacBook Pro i7 2.5 ghz has only had one owner and now it is time for someone else to enjoy it! It has a few external nicks however, it has upgraded memory (16 gigs), a brand new hard drive, and a brand new logic board...any Apple lover would love to have this 17 in MacBook Pro! It comes with the original box, cleaning cloth, Apple stickers, user manual, MagSafe power adapter. It will need a start up disk, but I have provided a picture of the screen illuminated to show that it powers up properly. This MacBook Pro also has a 750 gig hard drive. I have provided more detailed specks below. We are asking only 1295 OBO. LOCAL BUYERS ONLY. CASH ONLY PLEASE. MUST BE WILLING TO PICK UP.Additional Details:

Processor Type: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Screen Size: 17"
Memory: 16 GB
Release Year: 2011
Hard Drive Capacity: 750 gigs
MPN: A1297