So, a guy here at work just gave me his dead A1211 MBP (Late 2006). Apple diagnosed it as a dead motherboard, and said it would cost $700 to replace so all he wanted was his old hard drive.

We’ve done a couple of our own hard-drive upgrade guides (for the Mac mini, the MacBook Pro ... 9.5mm SATA MacBook Pro 15-inch Core 2 Duo Model A1211 2.5-inch 9.5mm SATA MacBook Pro 15-inch ...