I have decided to go with the tower configuration, despite the lure of portability the mobile option offered. With a tower I can add stuff on if needed and also have double the RAM (24 GB vs 16). Plus if they acquiesce to my request, I’ll have a sweet NVIDIA Quadro 4000 card with all those lovely CUDA cores. I responded back to the Product Manager by the requested deadline and now await the final answer on the configuration. I wonder if they will be closed on Monday for President’s day?
Dell Precision T5500 Tower
Nice, the extra RAM will be nice for After Effects, and the XEON’s will rule for After Effects. I hope you do get the 4000, as that Mobile Processor is better than the 2000.