Unibody or non-unibody???

I have a macbook pro June 2008 is it a unibody or non-unibody?

If you have silver keys and a removable battery, it is an original MBP. If you have black keys and a battery you can't remove, it's a unibody. There are other differences, but those are easy to see.

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