Daily Driver Engineering Student Laptop: Lenovo Y510p i7-4700MQ Crucial 512GB SSD 2x Nvidia 750m SLI (Nice to have the second card for gaming, but solidworks can only be modified to use 1 card) 8GB Ram She runs like a dream since I got rid of the TRAAAAAASH hybrid drive they had been shipping with these babies. The 512GB even with games and a dual boot of linux and windows, this thing is great since I can store anything I want to on my student Google drive account, which I haven't really had to use. I just don't recommend the SSD if you will be storing the bulk of your music or movies on the drive.