Aperture and multiple libraries.

Dear members:
I currently have a few libraries I have created with Aperture but don't keep them all in my pictures folder as I am afraid it may cause a conflict when launching the application.
Is there a way or an application that will allow me to keep my Aperture libraries in the pictures folder and ask me what library I wish to use when launching Aperture ? Also, in your opinion what is the easiest or simplest way to manage multiple libraries ?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Joseph Chamberlain

Depending on the precise model of your MacBook Pro, you can likely use a narrow PCI ExpressCard, not the wider ExpressCards.
The following link has some eSATA ExpressCards from a favorite vendor of mine:
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...not sure of good parts vendors in your country.
eSATA will be the fastest way to access additional storage on your MacBook Pro except for accessing storage via the gigabit ethernet, which brings additional headaches for portable solutions and is less viable.
If you don't really need a Mac Pro, then I agree the price can be a waste if you nor anyone else is really using it - besides being a shame to have such good equipment not being used. This is an ideal case for a less expensive file server, and where I use OpenSolaris and ZFS quite often; however, such systems require more technical expertise to build and setup properly.
eSATA will certainly help your disk access speeds, however, you should use the Activity Monitor application to monitor your exports and imports of projects to monitor if your CPU cores are maxing out. If your CPU is already at maximum speed during the export/import, moving to eSATA may not bring much performance improvement.
Further, your 3GB of RAM certainly isn't bad, but I know you can go to 4GB of RAM, and on some models, I'm hearing on the internet of success running 6GB of RAM on MacBook Pros. A RAM upgrade is probably the best dollar,....er.... pound-for-pound upgrade you can do.

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