Display Questions for MB Purchase

The hard drive in my current Dell laptop (yuck) is dying, so it's time for me to buy a new laptop. This seems like the perfect opportunity for me to purchase a Mac! The best Mac laptop I can afford at the moment is either a refurbished 2.0 GHz Aluminum MacBook or a refurbished 2009 White MacBook. Before I decide which of these to purchase, I need more information regarding MacBook screens.
1. Do these latest-model MacBooks' screens display true millions of colors, or do they display artificial millions of colors (thousands of colors plus dithering)? I know that Apple recently settled a lawsuit related to this issue in MacBooks and MacBook Pros -- and I think an iMac lawsuit is currently underway -- but I don't know if Apple is currently using displays which show true millions of colors.
2. I've read that some MacBook displays are actually better than others -- 9C8C, 9C89, 9C5E, etc. Is there a comprehensive and up-to-date list of MacBook displays with descriptions of which is best?
3. Might I be able to request a certain display if I order my MacBook in-store or by telephone? For budgetary reasons, if possible, I wish to purchase a refurbished MacBook instead of a new MacBook.
Thanks in advance for your help!

I truly appreciate your willingness to help me, but please understand that I've already done both a Google search and a search of the Apple Discussion forums regarding MacBook screens. For instance, those searches enabled me to obtaine the screen model numbers that I included in my original post.
There are many reports regarding Apple settling the recent MacBook and MacBook Pro dithering court case. However, I have been unable to locate any information regarding the terms of that settlement. Has Apple volunteered to use true millions of colors screens in laptops, have I missed fine print from Apple explaining that its laptop screens continue to use dithering, something else?
I've been able to uncover that MacBook screens are not created equal to one another, because Apple obtains MacBook screens from a number of different suppliers. And while a significant number of Mac users seemingly feel that MacBook Air/Pro screens are superior to both the White MacBook's screen and even the Aluminum MacBook's LED-based screen, others Mac users argue that at least some MacBook screens are comparable to more expensive Apple laptops.
As you can imagine, the thought of purchasing a MacBook that uses a potentially inferior screen makes me reluctant to purchase a refurbished unit from Apple +sight unseen+. But if there is a way for me to be 99% certain that any MacBook I buy will have an excellent screen -- such as making a special request to Apple for a certain screen model number -- I will be less afraid to buy.
Of course, I'm imperfect and the internet is a huge place. So it is entirely possible that I missed important sources of information on this topic. Please post links of any sources you feel might shed more light on this issue. Thanks!

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The original discussion was in regards to OS X's superior Unix based security, he devolved to this. Having only begun my venture into programming, his questions are a little above my head at this point. I'm also interested (as an amature programmer), how this would be accomplished in OS X/Unix.
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Here's his position:
*(1st entry)*
I have unsed Windows and many flavors of Unix and I have written programs in Assembler, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, RPG, Smalltak, Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi, C, C++, C#, Java, and Perl, and I have been programming for over 20 years, so I do have extensive knowledge about programming.
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I can make this business application have these features in ONE DAY on Windows, because COM and OLE lets me, use Word to spell and grammer check, Excel to do the financial calculations, and IE to render the HTML!
I make my living building complex customized business software, and Windows allow me to build these applications by myself in weeks, when it would take me and a team of programmers months to do these same things in Unix because of the lack of an the Win32 API, COM, and OLE, or I would have to BUY third party libraries that did these things, and deal with the licensing, versioning, and vendor problems that go with them, and none of those third party librabries would be close to Word, Excel, and IE in CAPABILITY!
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With the spell check you talked about, how will you keep in in synch with the dictionary in Word where the user is constantly adding and removing words?
No, you would have the user to have to maintain two different spell check dictionaries, and you would totally ignore the grammer check requirement!
Cutting and pasting data between applications is simple integration, and not the complex type that I am talking about.
Can you make your application display and use the MacGourmet menus appear in its own window, and to access and use the MacGourmet functionality (ie. search for a recipe) in its own window?
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Yes that idea of process isolation keeps the operating system safe from malicious code in applications and from one application taking the others down, but you lose the power of programs working together, and you simply cannot build the type of customized business applications that I build by myself, without reinventing the wheel over and over and without having a large team with lots of programmers.
For example, my customers and millions of others spend all day working in Word and Excel, and the Windows idea that I can transparently integrate my complex business applications right in Word and Excel menu, and into their templates and macros, is why third party developers like me prefer Windows over Unix, regardless of how much better security in Unix is.
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At risk of feeding the troll I'll wander in here:
NOTE: Since this is an Apple programming boards and I have limited experience programming on traditional Unix systems (and most of that in college) I will confine my answers to the area I know.
If you had to build a business application that has to allow users to, spell and grammer check, and perform financial calculations, and render the HTML, how would you compare the effort to do this in Windows versus that in Linux, AIX, Solaris or any other Unix operating system?
I can make this business application have these features in ONE DAY on Windows, because COM and OLE lets me, use Word to spell and grammer check, Excel to do the financial calculations, and IE to render the HTML!
Note that this scenario assumes the user has Microsoft office installed. The person argues that they don't have to purchase libraries to program but what they are effectively doing is simply transferring that cost to user. I don't have to purchase libraries but everyone of my users needs to. Good for you, very good for Microsoft but bad for your customer - IMHO. OK, I know "But all Windows business users have Office installed already." When it comes free with the system then I'll retract my objection.
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In case you think I'm blowing smoke here is a tutorial from 2002 (yes, this has been possible for over 5 years) outlining the 8 line Word Processor build in Cocoa. http://www.stone.com/TheCocoa_Files/What_s_sofunny.html
And yes, Cocoa also includes Webkit so I can add full HTML rendering by dragging in a WebKit window to my user interface. For an experienced Cocoa programmer this certainly sounds like less than a day of programming - in fact it sounds like a good tutorial for a middle-experienced training day or 2 day class in Cocoa.
I won't include the link to the 1 line web browser you can build in Cocoa using Webkit because it's shorter than the description. Feel free to search for it if you want to.
HONESTLY tell me and others reading this thread how you would go about create the customized business application I described above by yourself in a Unix instead of Windows, and tell us how many MONTHS or YEARS it would take you, or how you would have to BUY some other third party libraries to do what Word, Excel, and IE!
BUT this is all done from the stock system that is on every OS X computer not simply those with Office installed. Obviously you'd need to add some features that were more complicated than this - because any halfway decent programmer could turn this stuff out - and polish takes a while but to meet the requirements of the challenge it would take 2 days tops.
Is every *nix programming environment like this? I don't know I can only answer for the system that I have experience with and is the concern of this board. If you really have questions regarding *nix programming then I suggest you find an appropriate board and troll^H^H^H^H^H ask there.
If you're ever serious about programming on the Mac feel free to stop by and actually take a look at it. I think you'll be surprised.
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You didn't ask, but you should also do comparisons of ALL loaded data - including master data.
It sounds like you are implying that the client wants YOU to extract the legacy data. For an SAP consultant, this is not very realistic (unless the legacy system is another SAP system). Most of us do not understand the workings of the myriad legacy systems. The client is usually expected to produce one or more legacy system technical experts for you to liase with. You normally negotiate with the technical expert about every facet of of the data migration. In addition, you will liase with business users, who will help you and the implementation team to logically validate that the final solution (turnkey SAP production system, fully loaded with data) will meet the client's business needs.
Finally, you mentioned how do you track the mapping of master data between legacy and SAP. There are many ways to do this. I normally try to get the legacy person do the conversion on his end, eg, when he gives you the load file, you would like to have already translated the master data and inserted the SAP relevant values into the file. If this is not possible, I usually use MS Access databases to maintain a master map, and I perform the mapping on a PC. If your data package is small, you can probably get by using MS Excel or similar.
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