If you don't mind not having an optical drive, I'd highly recommend RAID 1 to prevent you from losing everything in case of an accident or hard drive failure.

RAID 1 is for people who are either bad at backing up hard drives or people who work with sensitive information that can't be lost (bankers, researchers, accountants et cetera). RAID 0 is for power users who absolutely want to milk every single penny out of hard drive storage costs.

In the event of a hard drive failure, you can almost instantly continue to use your second drive.

This configuration automatically keeps all of your data backed up. RAID 1 means that your two hard drives are mirrors of each other. Well, what this does is 'fuses' the two disks together so that the second disk doesn't need all of that 'formatting.' In this configuration, if one of your hard drives goes bad. You know when you put in a say a 300 gig hard drive but your system information tells you only have 280 gigs? I mean, I understand that Adobe Creative Suite runs very well on the MBP but from most feedback, I understand that all of the other programs run better on PC. UltraNav with TrackPoint & touchpad plus Fingerprint readerĬountry Pack North America with Line cord & 170W AC adapterĬan anyone tell me if this is sufficient enough for a MArch student? Anything need to be tweaked? Overall, I am leaning towards the Lenovo because I want to have the most efficient set-up possible and from general feedback, running bootcamp or parallels can be a pain at times and take a little to get used to the setup. NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3 MemoryĨ GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (4 DIMM) Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor (2.20GHz, 6MB 元)ġ5.6' HD+ (1600 x 900) LED Backlit Anti-Glare Display, Mobile Broadband Ready

So, I am definitely between the MBP and the Lenovo w520.

Lumion on macbook pro