1 catalogue managed on 2 Computers, looking at their own drive of Original Photos. Is this Possible? Thx

My LR4 catalogue is installed on my Desktop (Mac) with 11k Photos stored on an external drive (A) which is backed up hourly by time machine on a 2nd external drive (B). However I have now invested in a MacBook Pro to allow me to edit and keyword etc photos on the go. The photos will always be imported to the Desktop External (A) and this computer would continue to be the master because of the time machine backups and option to make a second copy, however most of my photo editing and key wording would be done on the laptop.
After extensive research online I concluded that my best approach would be to have a single catalogue (LRCAT file) that is backed up to my dropbox account so that both computers access the same modifications file. But how do I store the original photos? My ideal would be to have a 3rd portable drive (C) for the macbook that has all the same photos on as the desktop external drive (A) and is synchronised with the desktop external (A) to reflect all of the deletions made while doing the library management on the MacBook.
In summary, 2 computers, each with it's own external drive of originals, kept in sync, and managed by the LRCAT file stored in dropbox. Is this possible?
To anticipate your question, I don’t want to have a shared folder of original photos because the huge external desktop drive would be impossible to take on the road for use with the laptop, and actually is incompatible with the laptop as it is Firewire 800. And I don’t want to scrap it to make a portable drive the master external drive from performance, practicality and cost reasons. Not to mention that (inspite of the best will in the world) it would almost permanently be connected to the laptop and therefore the time machine back ups running on the desktop would rarely get to back up my precious photos. Having 2 identical drives of originals managed via to the workflow described above, would force hourly backups of all photos with Time Machine (since all new photos from the camera are imported to Desktop Drive (A)), and then necessity would require me to sync laptop drive (C) with (A) in order to be able to work on organising and editing the new images.
So…Can I have each computer looking to a different source of photos, if the photos are stored in the same hierarchy etc, but managed by 1 catalogue file?

THe long answer is no.
Mylenium

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