Absolutely, there is definitely a financial benefit when processing time adds up across the year and possibly more when dealing with crashes and lost work. But you also have to weigh how your managing data. Many times, you can increase the efficiency of your data handling and still operate with a standard base level pc. Work with tiled point clouds, check size efficiency of different file types, take a look into what specifically is causing bottlenecks, etc.. I got chills when I read “thousands of acres” ha ha. I expect there may be some limited GIS uses for files that large, but I bet with a little bit of tweaking workflow, operations could be drastically improved. Though I don’t have a lot of experience with it, I expect Global Mapper Pro could chop data up into a far more manageable size relatively easy.