Aperture 3 to Lightroom 5 WITH Adjustments?

Is there anyway to make the transition from Aperture 3 to Lightroom 5 where my adjustments to my photos also make the transition? Without having to export all my adjusted photos as TIFFs from Aperture?
I have over 20,000 photos in Aperture. I have Lightroom 5 and have read through this http://lightroomsolutions.com/articles/migrating-from-aperture-to-lightroom-wher e-do-i-begin/ but am a little freaked out about the paragraph about adjustments not making the transition. And yes, I can keep Aperture on my computer, but eventually it will no longer work with an OS or a chip or something as computers continue to progress.

Frank Caggiano wrote:
This could be done by writing the adjustments out to an XML file, for example, that LR could read in and use. Possibly not everything would map but the major adjustments could be reapplied.
Again this is only a guess on my part but it seems plausible.  However we'll all have to wait and see how this plays out.
Sorry Frank, this will not work. They could write things like "set the 'Definition' slider to 0.56" into an XML file. But how would that translate into a certain setting of LR's 'Clarity' slider? Apple would have to hand over all adjustment algorithms to Adobe, and Adobe would have to implement all that into LR. There is absolutely no chance that this will happen. They could hand over a project structure, ratings, tags or whatever, but your images will never look the same.
Look at Nikon: they dropped CNX2 with Nik U-Points and turned Silkypix into their new Capture NX-D RAW editor. All Nic adjustments will be lost, and a lot of users are not exactly happy about that.

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    I'm using Aperture 2.0 with the 8800GT. My system is the new MacPro 8 core 2.8GH with 10GB RAM. I'm shooting Nikon D3 lossless compressed RAW files. Approximately 12-14MB each.
    I do not need to use the quick preview mode. Images open instantaneously,either fit to screen or 100%. All the image adjustments are shown with no time lag. My D2X uncompressed raw files,19MB, display in approximately one second with quick preview turned off.
    I'm no MAC hardware expert so I don't know how much the speed is the result of the 8800GT but I'm just one happy camper.
    Hope this helps
    John Blake

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