Advice on New Computer for Aperture

I was hoping to get some advice...I have been using Aperture for a few years. Now using v3. I currently have a MBpro and an Imac-both 3 years old. I use 3 managed Aperture libraries - one that has all my travel, one for local work and one for an organization I work with. I just do better with 3 than one large. Right now I am at about 700GB and all 3 reside on a Rugged 1T drive. I backup to a 3T drive and another 1T. So 3 copies in all...(A 4th copy for the 2 personal libs) I am not using Vaults. I do use Time Machine.
I do a lot of casual work in the living room on the MBP and I also use it when I travel or go out in the city. I do more serious editing on the 21" iMac. I move the Rugged between the laptop and iMac but it is now making me nervous as it disconnects too easily. I happen to be looking to upgrade my computer and am thinking of going to a one computer set up. A Retina 13" (which would be great for travel) and a desktop setup with a 27" monitor and keyborad etc. I will not be able to keep all the libaries on the laptop-(even if I max out with the 700GM flash memory, which is an expensive option.) But with 500 I could keep 2 on there. So, I would need to buy another portable drive if I want to continue to work in two places with access to all 3. Likely a Thunderbolt 2T if that exisists. At least with one computer I would not have to keep mounting and umounting the external drive-which seems to be causing issues. I am often getting Aperture messages for inconsistanceis - directly related to the Rugged drive unmounting by accident. I understnad my issue may be directly related to this particular Rugged drive/and or cable. It never has issues on the iMac-only the MB pro.
Can anyone speak to working between two locations and having to keep libraries on a portable drive? Aside from being nearly impossible to upgrade, is the Retina setup with an external Thurderbolt monitor a smart one? Obviously I lose the glory of the R diplay when I do this.
If there are other considerations for a 2 location setup, I am all ears.
Thanks!
NJ

I use both managed and reference libraries.
When I am working on a project between different computers, I maintain those on portable drives and they are managed libraries. I just move the drives between different computers and open the library. I could make them referenced.
Once I am done with the project, I import the library into my master library (I maintain a master library for each year), and once imported, I relocated my masters to a folder based system with a separate folder for each project. I do this because it is easier to get to the master picture outside of the Aperture Library. My current master libraries for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 reside on an internal 2TB drive and I keep their size small by storing my referenced images on a Thunderbolt drive. BUT, my libraries from 2001-2009 are stored on firewire drive with the images stored as referenced images on other firewire drives.
At the start of each year I create a folder structure on an external drive for storing my referenced images. The top folder is the year called for example 2013 Pictures. Inside this folder I create a series of folders, one for each month of the year plus Miscellaneous plus Misc Libraries. I also add folders for things like the pictures I upload to Facebook, Photo.net, or the place I have things printed. Inside each month of the year folder, as I complete projects, I create a folder with the project date (YYMMDD) and relocate the master files for the project to this folder. This project folder can have subfolders, but I make sure it contains all of the working files related to the project.
Does this make any sense to you?

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