Need advice on what may be a BASIC question....?

Hi people....
I wonder if anyone could advise me?
I'm a working producer/programmer/fixer based in the UK but doing a lot of work in continental Europe, so my main computer is a PowerBook G4 running Logic. I need more power from my system, but I need it to be portable. So what do I go for?
A quad G5 would be like going from a beaten-up Ford to a Ferrari. But VERY inconvenient to carry on a Eurostar train along with a bag of interfaces + cables and a suitcase!
Here's my idea.....
I get a quad G5 and get it all running nice and happy here in London
I use something like Silverlining to create a bootable clone of the G5 on a portable drive
I take that abroad and use a rented computer, and boot up from this clone drive
Would this work?
Cheers
Matthew Vaughan

If yuo have stuff on iLok, you should be fine, but if
your 3rd party plugs are disk-authorized, they
may not work.
Thanks.....
....but if my plugs are disk-authorised, and I'm booting from a portable hard drive, then that would be the system drive. So the system should look at this drive to find the authorisations.....yes?
Like I said, the problem is, I work a lot in London, and in Paris, sometimes in other places too. I might be able to afford one G5, but it's obviously not portable enough to carry between jobs. Until I thought of this I thought I'd have to buy 2 systems and leave one in Paris....
....not actually BEING Bill Gates, I quickly rejected this solution on terms of cost....!
Cheers
Matthew Vaughan
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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