27 inch iMac hungs with Aperture 3 and Folder Problems

This is more a statement than a question as it seems to be normal to have problems with Apple computers.
A brand new purchased 27" iMac (less then a month ago) hangs continuously using Aperture 3 (officially purchased version).
A rebooting was always neccessary and a harddisk repair via software as well.
Unfortunately the only answer received by the Apple advisor of the Care Program was to follow the on screen instructions.
I have to say, that I'm very disappointed by the Apple aftersales service. This is my 4th iMac and all of them ended up with harddrive problems, but none after only 3 weeks.
Furthermore I noticed, that after performing the migration from my old broken iMac to this new one, information included in my agenda got lost or doubled and existing folders in Finder were copied just as an icon (can not be opened) and can not be deleted either.
Regards,

afelez,
There are loads of things you can do to optimize Aperture, including trashing old caches and preferences and rebuilding your library. Also if you have a severely fragmented hard drive (although I doubt that's the case considering the age of your system), that can impact performance.
It's also worth noting that Aperture isn't always the greatest at reporting that it's actually doing something. There are many times when Aperture actually is working, but it appears to be stuck. The way to know for sure is to check the Activity Monitor. If you see Aperture using lots of cycles, but seemingly not responding, it actually is working. Leaving it alone is the best thing to do. If you force quit, you will exacerbate the problem and end up running into the same issue again—but probably worse, as the system tries to recover.
If you're still having issues, stop by www.ApertureExpert.com and go to the Forum, and post a question with as much detail as possible about your system. Lots of very experienced Aperture users in there, plus we can dig up old articles for you to read that will offer specific solutions to try.
Good luck
-Joseph

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