Aperture is killing my mac

I have a 56gb Aperture library and have been running this on my macbook 13" air 4gb, however it got to the point I had very little space left so I moved it over to a brand new mac mini with 8gb.
Aperture is saying its constantly importing. usually I have open, mail,postbox, Sipgate VOIP, and perhaps a browser. No real difference to what I would run on my Air. But its slow, really slow. I was worried that the mini would not cope being serial drive over the faster SSD, so I upgrade to 8GB but seriously if I open photoshop I can forget gettting any speed from it. My air performed far better and although its not what I call fast when running aperture/photoshop it was usable.
Open Photoshop and I may as well go for a coffee before I can use it and then it always feels like its loading something.
the macmini is causing me concern - is this normal, am I just expecting too much coming from SSD to serial?

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It begins with: F-285-NER-151-QBQ-and continues with 5 more 3 or 4 letters/numbers..
Yes, that is the number. And what version of Aperture have you installed? The same version as on your old Mac?
But it don´t work on my new Mac...
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Ops! Not so fast. I would like if I can edit my previous post but I can not. So, please read below since unfortunately this is not as simple as I thought it is last night...
I tested that last night using and manipulating the existing "test" projects and "test" masters and versions.
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My Aperture Library is currently on the Mac and is 'Managed'. I have contemplated moving the 50GB or so of Aperture Library to an external HDD and going 'Referenced', mainly because I still have some images I need to work on (even though Aperture is for obvious reasons ponderously slow with frequent SBOD on this machine) until I decide what to upgrade to (Macbook 15" or iMac with more bangs for the buck) and wait for the latest refresh of the line that I choose.
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1) Get the new Mac now, migrate everything across (including Aperture and its Managed library) THEN move the Aperture library off the internal HDD to an external and going Referenced, or;
2) Go Referenced now. In which case when I eventually do then migrate Aperture to the new machine will it automatically 'point' to the correct location of the external HDD referenced library when what is left of Aperture copies across or is there and easier (or indeed more convoluted) process I will have to go through if I switch to Rferenced before getting the new Mac and migrating?
Accept of course with the new Mac the HDD will be so much bigger so there may actually be no need to go Referenced, at least yet. Try as I might, save for HDD space I don't see that many benefits to Referenced
From my experience, it is less troublesome to migrate a managed library with Migration Assistant. If parts of your Library are referenced, and you migrate the referenced masters as well, you may need to reconnect them, unless you only have to plug in the volume with referenced masters. Then Aperture should reference them correctly without extra trouble.
Try as I might, save for HDD space I don't see that many benefits to Referenced
Then stick to the managed setup until your library really becomes huge.
On the new Mac front, while I like laptops, I find that the iPad and this Mac do most of what I want (e.g. surfing, mailing and running the odd few apps). While a new MBP would be appreciated part of me still thinks that the more bang for the buck iMac is the better investment. The only thing I MAY need to do is upload the occasional photo shoot on the move (by creating a new project) which, if stripped back to basics, this Mac miight still be OK for until I get back home and move the project to the iMac, reloacting to the masters to the referenced external HDD after.
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I am still waiting for my iPad to be delivered - right now I take a MBP on the road. For the new shoots I create a new Aperture library, do most of the tagging while I still remember how the images have been taken, and when back home I import the new project into my main library.
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