What if you stayed with Mac and invested in some goodies: For storage: Why don't you get an external SSD with a fast connection (eg Thunderbolt)? Depending on

What if you stayed with Mac and invested in some goodies: For storage: Why don't you get an external SSD with a fast connection (eg Thunderbolt)? Depending on your budget, data rates can be 450 MB/sec on up to 20GB/s if I recall correctly. I am running a Samsung SSD at 450, and it does fine (a bit laggy sometimes, but it was under $100). For GPUs: You can buy an nvidia card and mount externally. Here is a good link (though I haven't gone that route yet) : http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-build-an-external-gpu-for-4k-video-editing-vr-and-gaming/ http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-build-an-external...