Aperture and multiple Macs

We're two users that have have one iMac and three MacBooks, one Pro, one regular and one Air.
Thanks to the very useful tips provided in this magnificent forum, we've managed to consolidate our two iPhoto libraries and migrate them over to Aperture. We're now having a rather large single Aperture "master" library on our iMac. This is also the place where we do all our image imports and editing.
What I'm looking for is practical experiences to get a subset of images from our iMac to our MacBooks, both for viewing on the road as well as to sync with a variety of iOS devices. Note that there's no need to do editing on the MacBooks, so it's a one way transfer only.
What I've been looking at until now:
Obviously MobileMe galleries are an option and I do hope these survive in Steve's future iCloud.
Put images to share in a dedicated folder and export this as a separate Aperture library. Disadvantage is that Aperture runs rather slow on our regular MacBook and MacBook Air.
Transfer Aperture images to an iPhoto library. Disadvantage is that for example slide shows cannot be exported this way.
Love to hear what other forum members do in real life.
Many thanks,
Eric

Hi Eric --
EVO67 wrote:
What I've been looking at until now:
Put images to share in a dedicated folder and export this as a separate Aperture library. Disadvantage is that Aperture runs rather slow on our regular MacBook and MacBook Air.
Does it still run slowly in Quick Preview mode? Quick Preview loads only the Previews of images, and does not read or load the Master + Version. It's designed to improve performance during quick reviewing, keywording, etc.
This has the advantage of giving you the Aperture interface, with which you are familiar. And should the need arise, you could always merge back an adjusted or otherwise altered image.
The only other thing that comes to mind is one of the many alternatives to MobileMe -- something which allows you to host a on-line gallery of images. The disadvantages there are: must have on-line access; cost; maintenance.

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