Mac Book Pro with Retina display and thunderbolt for editing BMC raw footage

[milandirector]

Hi,

I m about to purchase new Mac Book Pro with Retina Display i7 Quad Core 2.6 with 16GB RAM, but only with 256 SSD. This computer is already way above my budget, but as I m planning to buy BMC camera, I need something fast to edit RAW footage.
My question is would this computer with Thunderbolt External HD (my internal SSD would be to small) be enough for editing RAW dng footage (if not completely smooth, than at least bearable editing)?
Thank you very much.

P.S. I have been editing mostly on FCP 7, and I know that I need to make transition to Premiere C6 in order to edit RAW footage.

[Andrew - EOSHD]

No laptop on earth will edit the raw DNG footage directly.

You need to edit by proxy, i.e. transcode to a lossless format for playback and editing.

[milandirector]

Thanks Andrew for your replay.
I'll have too look closely into this new worlflow for BMC.
I m used to rditing footage than coloring, Would I hvae to change this with BMC - color the footage in DaVinci than transcode and edit in Premiere?