CS5 - Mobile Rendering - Harm? Bill? Anyone :D

Hi Guys,
Hope when you have some free time you could give your input, or anyone else
CURRENT SITUATION
Edit AVCHD footage shot using several Canon HF S11 camcorders for a reality video blog.
Primary editing/rendering machine is a Sager Notebook NP9280 - i7-960 (desktop not mobile) with 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a NVIDIA GTX 280M, along with two 120GB OCZ SSD drives (raid 0) and a 500GB 7200 RPM drive (and backup drives).
Using CS5 Premiere hack to get Mercury running on the GTX280 -- works great!
WHY A LAPTOP?
Before you ask, my projects take me around the world, and due to the nature of the constant need of updates, we cannot return home and edit it later like a traditional movie project.
THE PROBLEM
Due to more usage of Colorista/Magic Bullet Looks & Adobe After Effects this machine is rendering video for hours at a time. Sometimes I cannot use it all day.
THE QUESTION
Should I buy a second Sager Notebook i7-980X with 12GB of ram to render projects on, or should I go with a small render box from boxxtech (which can support 32GB+). I can Fedex a small computer vs a huge workstation tower.
http://www.boxxtech.com/products/renderPRO/pro_overview.asp
So, another laptop, or a dedicated rendering box? or if someone else has a more creative approach
p.s. There is a new option on the Sager Notebook that lets you put in a Nvidia Quadro FX 3800, would that have a have huge performance boost?
Thanks in Advance!!!

Thanks Harm =)
So many questions its hard to find which direction to go.
Sager NP9285
Intel® Core™ i7-980X Processor Extreme Edition ( 12MB L3 Cache, 3.33GHz, 6.4GT/sec QPI Six Core)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M Graphics with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory
12GB Triple Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 3 X 4GB
1 x 320GB 7200rpm HDD
= $3,959.00
VS
RenderPro 4
XEON X3470 2.93GHz, 8MB cache, 1333 MHz
24GB DDR3-1333 REG ECC (6 - 4GB DIMMS)
1 x Matrox G200eW Graphics
1 x 320GB 7200rpm HDD
= $4,397.00
The hard drives were just selected for pricing reasons, I'd upgrade them to SSDs myself.
Which direction would you go? I'm looking for fast render speed in both Adobe Media Encoder & After Effects.
will the Xeon and Double the memory = half the render time?
Because, the one + with another notebook is it also gives us another editing platform.
I'm looking at spending a max of $5000

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