How can I run MoI faster?

 From:  woods
8207.1 
I use MoI extensively for jewelry design/modeling work that has hundreds of components, stones, prongs, design elements and I find MoI bogging down a bit on extensive jobs. I do CAD design and model making for a living, so every minute counts for me- the faster I can work, the better. I'm not very knowledgeable about computers so please forgive my ignorance, but perhaps I can upgrade my hardware to improve the performance of MoI? Right now I am using a laptop, the processor is an i7 2.4 GHz, 8 GB of RAM, 64 bit operating system / x64 based processor. I am open to building a new machine, would I be able to achieve substantially better performance within a budget of around US$ 2K? Any information is helpful, thanks in advance.