Sturdyman
Understand, the real secrets are being revealed to you here; Gehrke's drive replacement and usb3 flash as media drive are front lines tactics for Premiere users. I edit all day on a workstation with dual E5 Xeon 16core (32 total) chips and 132GB 1600 mhz RAM with a five SSD RAID and a 780 Ti GTX video card, but in the evenings I use an MSI 12 GB RAM laptop to poke around, train, and set up projects etc.(and do my email and personal computing)...
Meaning: If you are responsible for industry level output, the high end hardware is to be engaged, but for learning, dabbling, getting started, and small or less time demanding projects - don't be afraid to use less than top end hardware, get into the game and enjoy what you have for now. Laptops can be very useful to some users.