LR3 - Retaining image edits between 2 computers using USB Hard Drive

Hi guys,
I'm having troublewith syncing edits to my images between 2 computers that I'm using and wondered if you can help.
I have a desktop mac which is my main computer for image editing and also a Macbook.  I don't store any images on either machined hard drives, I use a portable USB drive so that I can plug it into either computer.
I do most of my image edits on my desktop mac but then when I plug the hard drive into my laptop, the images are just as they were off the camera with no edits.
I need to be able to sync the edits so that when I plug the hard drive into the macbook, the edits are shown.
I do wedding photography and make the edits on my desktop and then would like to be able to take my laptop to visit my clients and show them the edited images.
Please could someone explain to me how to do this.
Many thanks in advance.

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