Configuring Mac Setup (Hardware)

I'm looking at putting together a decent small production set up for Photography, Music Production & Video Production.
I was comparing options of a 27" iMac i7 vs 27" LED ACD + Mac Pro.
BUt was thinking of continuing my usage of my 13" MBP, and getting an iMac 27" i7 + Mac Pro Quad or Hexicore.
13" MBP - mobile work, offsite work.
27" iMac - Onsite, in house production editing and arranging.
Mac Pro - with the iMac connected to the Mini-DP port; with OS X Server managing all the computers, throwing Final Cut Server on there, as well as Logic Node and use the machine as a processing/storage farm with 4x 2TB HDDs plus a 128GB SSD Boot/OS Drive
any advice or tips on the logistical elements of a set up like this? practical?
thanks

If you don't need to have a laptop I've been setting up several groups of print designers from Dual Xeon Mac Pro's to i7 imac 27". They work high-res "for print" files and photographs as well most Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver. While they're not portable the designers are very happy with the increased speed from the upgrade and both the MacPros and the newer iMacs have 16GB RAM, standard HD's and 2GB Video Cards, though I would spend the extra money on the 4GB cards going forward. Other Mac IT folks I have talked to have replaced many of their graphic workstations with iMacs and had great success. Mac's laptop line is too busy getting thinner and lighter to be much more than a secondary work machine for people on the road all day. If you need to be portable but spend more time at a desk in an office somewhere I'd invest in an iPad and a dedicated system over the laptop.
If you are planning on doing high end video editing or 3D rendering I would suggest the Xeon Pro's, over the iMacs i5 or i7, they are workstations and very capable with those types of tasks.

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Call graph:
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5 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt
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1 0xb808a478
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1 0xb80bd3cc
1 0xb827799e
1 0xb827799e
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2 0xbfffc110
1 0x631d5586
1 0x631d5586
1 0x631d67b1
1 0x631d67b1
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2 0xb8043850
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1 0x630f9c32
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1 0x628edde
1 0x628ee2d
1 0x628ee2d
1 0x628f319
1 0x628f319
1 0x628f562
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