Probably worth it, since he got a MacBook Pro a year earlier than everyone else. For the rest of us, the MacBook Pros (started as the short-lived Core Duo models) weren't available until spring 2006. The Core 2 Duo models didn't exist until late 2006.

Then I most likely have the timeframe wrong. It was RIGHT when the Core 2 Duo came out. It was just the MacBook though... not a Pro. November 2006 sound right?

Well... I gave it to a child who subsequently tore the keys off of it. Overall, it was mostly okay. Superdrive rarely worked (it'd just eject discs randomly - started happening day 2) Logic board went in the first year. It was replaced by Apple, but I lost everything on the HD. HD went on year 4... I replaced it with an SSD. That lasted right up until the child incident. Who knows, perhaps I could still get it to boot. It was a fun machine to work with.