If you figure out how to become proficient with something you don't own, that your employer won't supply, and without sleeping at work, please let me know. That would have saved me many bed-head mornings at work in my younger days.
Check with your local Mac dealers for the refurbs. Mine had a few just before Christmas and I was very close to buying before I fell for the c2d.
Amazon also carries refurbs.
You could also go the used route - newspapers, craigslist, etc., but I'm sure you've noticed laptops, especially mac laptops, hold their value too well.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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