Originally Posted by
ou81two
Just get a Macbook Pro. Better resale value and better engineered than anything else in the market.
By the time I'm finished with a Notebook, the resale value is pretty negligible. Do Apple even sell a notebook with the full 32Gb? I can see where the OP is coming from - such a device will make quite a portable lab.
Personally, if I needed that level of performance, on the move, I'd be looking at a workstation class laptop (and accept the size/weight compromise).