P150EM Or Macbook Pro with Retina Display?

[hosey187]

P150EM-
Display: 15.6" 1920 x 1080 FHD LED Backlit Matte Display
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM, 6MB L3 Cache, 2.6-3.6GHz
Memory: (16GB) 16384MB, PC3-10660/1333MHz DDR3 - 4 SO-DIMM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M (Fermi) 2GB GDDR5
Hard Drive: 128GB Crucial® (M4) SATA III 6Gb/s SSD2 Drive
Optical Drive Bay: 8X Multi DVD+/-R/RW RAM Dual-Layer Drive
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium; 64-bit
Wireless: Intel® 6300 Ultimate-N 802.11A/B/G/N LAN Card
Cooling: IC Diamond 7 Thermal Compound, CPU & GPU

OR

Macbook-
Processor: Intel i7-3620QM 2.3GHz
Memory: 8Gb DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 650M
Hard Drive: 256Gb SSD Sata 3 6Gb/s
Optical Drive Bay:None
OS: OS X Mountain Lion


Which is better for speed of multitasking(internet research and word processors/powerpoints), graphics rendering(CAD and other engineering software), and video editing?

 

[jay_nar2012]

1st one.

 

[popatim]

Your first step I would think would be to contact your school and see if the engineering software you will need is even available on a mac.

the p150 has a slightly better processor and gpu but only 128gb of HDD space whereas the MBP has 256GB...

Honestly I would go with the Clevo (I love mine) and drop down to the 670m GPU since there isnt much that it cant play that the 675 can and put that $100 toward a bigger ssd or secondary storage.

The best bang for mobile gpu is probably the 7970m. There isnt much it cant run at ultra at all. Sadly its about a $200 upgrade.