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I'm in a similar boat with an older 2006 era MBP. It runs fine, and I'd just love to use it to watch movies or whatever. But I'm stuck in a similar "can't upgrade" mill, and the machine is too old to be useful for much else. So it just sits and collects dust.

Strangely my Windows machines from the same era (and earlier) aren't caught in the same pile of issues. They're still running XP, but pretty much everything still more or less works on XP (at least things the machines are physically capable of running). I've toyed around with installing Win 7 on them, but really, what's the point? There's nothing I can't really do with those machines that's within their processor profiles.