Buying the right Apple Product?

I'm considering transitioning over to Apple And I need the communities advise please...
I have made a significant investment previously in Windows based products such as...
1. COREL - Paintshop Pro X7
2. COREL - VideoStudio X7  Video Editor with Screen Capture
3. MOVAVI - Video Editor  with Screen Capture
I realise if I transition I will have to reinvest. The products I will look at are
1. Final Cut Pro
2. Logic Pro X
3. Aperture
4. Adobe Suites - photoshop etc.
I have a couple of questions which I would appreciate your input please (Users only - no product sales people - respectfully I'm looking for unbiased input please that is not driven by quotas or agendas).
Question 1
1, will a MacBook have the grunt, performance and stability to facilitate my editing needs? If so what's the minimum I should look at?
Question 2
1. How often does Final Cut Pro release new features? With MOVAVI & COREL they are continually releasing new transitions and editing features. Does this happen with these high end products?
Thanks in advance - let's see if I can gain the certainty from the community to help me make my decision or not....

just a comment from the hobbyist corner:
for video, there's very little need to install a print-pre-production suite as Adobe CS - video has no CMYK, has RGB only.
So, for a fraction of the monthly fee Adobe actually asks for, you get Pixelmator, which - imho! - offers everything (and more) the video-maker needs for 'still preparation' - including saving as .psd, to have access to each layer in FCPX or Motion5 (missing THAT on your shopping list, a must)  ... plus, I bought Pixelmator a hundred years ago once, and got dozens of updates yet - for free! Incredible bang for buck!
according 'power':
the secret sauce for a speedy edit system is 'platters': distribute Events, Projects, cache, apps onto different hard-drives - if you consider that, you can perform stunts like this 4-streams-4k-multicam on a MacMini.
yeah, a bit crazy, but I HAD to try that.........
FCPX + a Mac can NOT be measured by standard hardware benchmarks only, I say  ... me no engineer, but as my lil' 'test' demoes, some really cheap and low-specs hardware + FCPX runs circles around 'nitro-cooled über-beasts' in the PC sector........
a more profound source than me about managing media, is Mr Larry Jordan:
http://www.larryjordan.biz/fcp-x-convert-managed-to-external-media/

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