Best way to run a healthy studio

I wanted some opinions about how I am upgrading my home studio.
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011 2.7ghz i7 duo core with 4gb of ram.
I am using Logic Pro 9.
I want to purchase a universal audio apollo quad for my interface,
With the thunderbolt card.
Also two lacie ssd external drives,
One for audio and the other for samples, komplete 9 ecetera.
I also want to upgrade the ram to 16gb and replace the internal Sata in the MacBook Pro with an ssd.
I also just bought a pair of genelec mo40 monitors that are amazing.
All suggestions are welcome,
Maybe someone can come up with a more effective way to do this ?
Bye I record one track at a time, singer songwriter style :-)
Thank you all in advance.

cjl,
Yes, that should run.   Except.... Does your program use any hardware?  Does it use any Windows-specific functions (from the Platform folder)? Does it rely on a particular video driver or soundcard? Does it rely on right click mouse actions?  All of these kinds of things may or may not work because they are closely linked between the Windows OS and the underlying computer hardware.  While the software itself will problaby execute, the programmay not work as expected if some of these dependencies are handled differently by the Apple hardware.
I have not used VM but running native under Bootcamp works pretty well, again allowing for the issues mentioned above.
Lynn

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