Out of memory error, retina display mac

Question

I went to the mac store and the "genius" outright lied to me.  He blamed the "out of memory" render problem on fcp and not the laptop itself. 
Tell me if I"m wrong on this...
I can take the hard drive that I'm rendering from and render without a problem on my desktop and old laptop no problem...but my new piece of sh*t laptop (which has been a problem from day one) will not render the sequence.
Hardware Overview:
  Model Name:          MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier:          MacBookPro10,1
  Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:          2.3 GHz
  Number of Processors:          1
  Total Number of Cores:          4
  L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
  L3 Cache:          6 MB
  Memory:          16 GB
  Boot ROM Version:          MBP101.00EE.B02
  SMC Version (system):          2.3f32
Hardware UUID:          B043CF8D-63BF-50CD-A4FC-F38E508949FF
I get an out of memory on every last type of render there is...I have always been a mac user since day one, but this laptop is crap at best

Answer 1

A question and an observation from somebody who doesn't use FCP of either flavor. Feel free to ignore the observation, but the answer to the question might help somebody else help you with your problem.
What level of OS X are you running on your Retina MBP? Your profile line says you are running Snow Leopard (10.6.8), but that won't run on a Retina MBP. They came with Lion (10.7.x) at first, they with Mountain Lion (10.8.x).
Reports on how well FCP7 runs on OS X 10.8 are mixed even before you throw the Retina display into the mix, but some Retina MBPs that shipped with 10.7 seem to work better with 10.8. (Mine does.)