TLDR

I'm currently using a MacBook Air late 2014. Yep. That old thing.
On a daily basis I'm having to put up with only 4GB of DDR3 RAM and onboard graphics which is really limiting for me as I'm a hobbyist filmmaker and developer. I also only have 120GB Storage. I used to use Final Cut Pro x without any problems and recently switched to premiere which to my surprise is running ok.
I currently game on Xbox, I'm a big FORZA fan. I am looking to build a PC in the near future as I am looking to get more power for editing and I also have a good steam library sitting there waiting for me (I get sent lots of keys).
 
As for the external hard drives, I don't really think it's convenient to have external Hard drives connected 24/7, especially if your traveling a lot. For me I film a lot of footage and I am regularly dumping it on a external drive, it's fine for casual use but not to be running alongside your Mac as a main source.
 
To have laptops connected to a display can be convenient however having it on a display 24/7 is debatable. I like however being able to use a display at home then disconnect easily and take my laptop anywhere and continue where I left off. They shouldn't really age much faster than normal if you give it proper treatment.
 
To wrap up:
PROS: 
Portability Most are lightweight Quiet under average workloads. Can handle tasks such as video editing and light gaming depending on the laptop. CONS
Can get pricey depending on brand and model. I/O can sometimes be limiting  Storage can be limiting depending on laptop At the end of the day it all depends on personal preference when it comes to PC and Laptops. While I haven't had bad experiences using displays with laptops and external drives it really depends on what you plan to do.
 
Hope this helps

Hi,
Following on as mentioned above and in the video.
If possible use the original case packaging for the case and all the components that can stay inside. It is reccomended to take out the video card and if possible also put it back in the original packaging. When putting packing material inside make sure it's stuff that won't go everywhere like loosefill (should be common sense) use bubble wrap or other similar material. Good Luck!

Thanks  

I think other than the RX480, I am more than willing to sell those components. 
I have been using this machine for like more than 5 years....
 
I dont understand what you mean....
 
 
In the foreseeable future, nope. I don't plan on playing games anymore. I've even created a thread talking about it...
 
Any recommendations? I am planning to save 1 3TB HDD and 1 1TB HDD that I've already have. 
Also I am using a macbook pro as my main machine, does it require some sort of special NAS? (totally noob when it comes to this.)
I saw TLDR suggested me to turn my main pc to a server. I think this is what I will do! 
I am definitely interested to do some tinkering in linux. 
Do you have any suggestions when it comes to building a server? 
Oh wow. I haven't thought about that! That is what I need I think! 
 
I think now all I need to do is find out how. 
Will start look into it.

There are actually many ways you could approach the home server you spoke about here's a few:
Use HYPERV on your current OS to run virtual machines within Windows. Provided you have Hyper-V on Windows 10. This will allow you to run FreeNAS and unbutu inside and also pretty much any OS you want. You can basically have multiple seperate servers running on one OS. You can dual boot unbutu or FreeNAS (FreeNAS from USB) and partition your drives to deticate some to your normal OS and most to your server OS you choose. You can run UNRAID replacing Windows and use the VM feature to install Windows and any OS you want while having a full on file server. You can dual boot all your OS. You can dual boot or Virtulise Unbutu and use that rather then FREENAS which will also allow many other services such as plex and a lot of Linux server features. If you decide to replace your Windows OS with a server based OS then be sure to deactivate your key for later use in a VM or dual boot (you can only do this if it isn't OEM)
We can discuss this further when I fully understand your needs and then we can create an action plan.

Nice try, MPAA.
 
Seriously though, most of my TV and movie media is ripped from my expansive DVD and BluRay collection. Music comes from our family CD collection, but more so now from Spotify because it's very convenient to pay $15 / month to let everyone stream music. Less work on my end.
 
In Canada, it's still legal to make recordings of anything broadcast over-the-air or on a cable subscription you pay for, as long as it's for personal use, such as watching later when you have the time, or cutting parts of it up for a documentary or parody. (aka Fair Use.) How I acquire said recordings is my business, but as long as I've legally been able to watch it via any form of broadcast that I pay for (or is free) then it doesn't matter. (Although the distributors would try to argue otherwise.)
 
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Please consult your local counsel in your area.

Introduction:
Sup LTT! I swear every time my buddy finds his way over here we spend a couple days just nerding out to the max. Projects that aren't even on our table just spontaneously happen. This time is no exception, woke up with no intention of screwing around with the LTE modem for this place but now we've built & spent all day testing two different satellite dish based boosters. The only empirical data we could gather through this process was my  modem's status page which gave us Signal Strength in dBm & then a Signal Quality rating as well. Though after a day spent trying all sorts of crazy things, watching those two numbers constantly, and trying to handle this in a scientific manner we've came up with some killer results. Night and day difference! Technically speaking, maybe this is all occurring for reasons we don't properly understand. Though the signal strength/quality gain is hard to argue with & it's noticeably faster for everybody across the network, so I'd call that a win.
 
The Setup:
This location is out in the middle of national forest, the closest cell tower is roughly five miles away. Forget power so everything is ran off generators / batteries. Options for decent internet out here are super limited, I've tried all the satellite internet options available, of which they all suck terrible ass. Finally I got temp phones with all the carriers that had towers around the area & just started speed testing the crap out of them. This worked so well in comparison to anything else I'd tried that I bought MOFI4500-4GXeLTE-V2's for all my locations, got unlimited data plans, and said welcome to the LTE revolution. Now these things are pretty cool they've got lots of neat features & run OpenWRT. As I mentioned in stevenkan's 4G/LTE hotspot thread, their customer service is absolutely terrible, plus their is $40 chinese versions of these exact models out there already. So I don't want to sound like a mofi fanboi even though I have enjoyed using their equipment so far.
 
Previous owners of the property had satellite television & left a dish attached to a cement block outside. Plus I still had a dish left over from trying out satellite internet options, one they never picked up or wanted back. Looking around this morning after having coffee we found this lovely guide; DIY 4G LTE Yagi Antenna in 10 Steps for $10 which was very inspiring. Though I tell you what, I don't have any of that gear, am out in the middle of no where for the holiday weekend, & am not driving the two+ hours back to the closest town to find those parts. Regardless if it's ten bucks or not, time & gas alone says no. So we started thinking what we could do that would have any effect at all. So we used Antenna Search.com to find the exact location of the only tower around & started moving the modem all over the place. Got the ladder out & tried mounting it to the roof on the second floor, sitting it in all the window seals, moving electronics, etc. The signal strength would range from -105 through -110 dBm & the quality would jump around like crazy but generally average from 15-20. Outside the numbers it just lists this generically as "poor signal quality" in the modem status page.
 
So we went out and took the dishes off both the old dish system & the old internet system. The when mounted them to studio lighting & green screen poles. Technically these are from Linco & are their 10ft editions. Not really sure what we were doing we used zip ties as a quick an easy solution to mounting things since we could undo them in a heart beat. We also tried to find other guides on the internet for people who have done this, most of which range widely in quality, generally on the terrible side. Most people that seemed more educated suggested mimicking the distance & angles perfectly from how the dish was originally used so we made sure to attempt that first before moving basically every piece possible into every possible position then watching for a while to see if the signal numbers improved at all. This was a day long process, we didn't want to act to quickly on anything though we also learned A LOT along the way. Whole lot of reinventing the wheel and just being noobs going on as curiosity truly was the name of the day. I kept taking pictures but in low light situations my phone did not do that well, I'll be sure to include them though so everybody can see how we progressed.
 
Interesting Notes:
The smaller television dish is actually a horizontal oval, we kept kidding it was the 16:9 dish. Though it was also more concave then the internet dish. Much lighter and easier to work with that's for sure. The receiver on it actually had three points laid out horizontal that matched the wider surface area of the dish. This turned out to be important later on while we were trying to get the two cellular antennas perfectly aligned for each dish's nuances. On the other hand the internet dish was easily three inches larger on the left and right plus was an actual circle so much wider top to bottom. Though it was almost flat in shape & it was used with a single receiver pointed right at the center of the dish. The weight of this unit actually made it much harder to move around & test, plus when fully extended ten feet into the air it wobbled pretty concernedly. It was so much harder to try and get the antennas aligned on this dish as well, the signal quality through the whole day was just worse no matter what we did, how we mounted things, or prayed to the cellular gods.
 
At the end of the day after slowly testing everything we could in different locations, adding wood blocks to change tilt, you name it. We started to see some pretty common themes that greatly impacted performance & ones that hindered it to laughable conditions. Finishing the day out with the smaller TV dish about five feet off the ground pointing out a glass door. We would also take our cell phones with apps like Network Signal Info & see if we couldn't boost them as well, which we could. So it was a decent second and third device to have around for playing with during the performance verification steps of each stage of what we were trying to do. I asked if he had any comments for this post & he said that he was really surprised with how precise you have to be & how much tiny amounts of movement mattered to overall signal quality. Getting the antennas to work with the dish is moving everything tiny amounts until you hit just the right spot. At that, he also said, it was neat even with the modem's slow status page poll rates you could see almost immediately when you found the sweet spot. Jumping on that point it was amazing to me as well. If you put the whole rig ten feet in the air and slowly worked it down inch by inch you'd find a huge different between say 7'6" and 7'. I didn't really expect that myself given I'd just been screwing these units into the ceilings / walls of places & walking away pretty happy.
 
The Results:
We managed to gain +10 dBm on our signal strength & +10 on the signal quality as well. Though one of the biggest differences is it just doesn't jump around like crazy. It use to spike left and right, no stability. Now it just sits at -98 / -10 with slight changes over time, mainly to the quality rating not the strength. Inside the software this took it from two bars of connectivity at a "poor" rating, to three bars at a "fair" rating. The entire network is considerably snappier & our speed test latency dropped about 25% on average. (from around 100ms to 75ms) Overall for something that cost no money & has no power going to it I'd say that's a massive win. Plus now it's all mobile! I can take this thing with me to other locations. Spin it, raise it, lower it, change it's pitch, completely aim it wherever I need to. Should make finding that sweet spot much easier in the future, plus just knowing WTF we're doing probably helps as well. Was a neat project for the day, sure it could've been done faster but we really wanted to see what would happen if we tested basically every possible outcome.
 
The Winning Idea:

Both Attempts Side By Side:

Zip Tie Mounting FTW:
 
Final Positioning & Working Version:
 

Wow! This is a great post! Thanks for taking the time to write it up for us. 

Ripped my own DVDs / blurays and i buy a lot from iTunes.