Aperture Lightroom Nikon D7000...

Hi have just upgraded my iMac and as my Nikon D7000 is not compatible with  Lightroom 2 which I had before I now need to either get Lightroom 3 or perhaps switch to Aperture.
2 questions - does the latest version of Aperture work well with the Nikon D7000. Seemless RAW conversion etc
And the obvious question Aperture vs Lightroom . I am not hugely techie but maange to understand and use LR well enough but Aperture seems to get good reviews and comments.
I should add that when my data was transferred to my new computer by a so called computer expert ALL my photos ended up n iphoto and there is nothing showing in Lightroom 2

Hi Adele,
     I've got the D5100, so the same sensor - and I use Aperture for pretty much everything.  If you're coming from Lightroom to Aperture, there are a few things that are a little different.  The items that immediately come to mind are:
Aperture can do on-screen soft-proofing, which is really useful for working out the effect of using different papers when printing your photos
Aperture doesn't do gradients, which is something that would be really nice
Aperture's terminology is a little different to Lightroom's - be prepared to read and think about it before diving in. 
Unlike Lightroom, Aperture manages your images either in their current locations on the hard disk, or by importing them into a managed library - but in both cases, Aperture is the method by which you subsequently manage and organise the images - not Finder.  When you look at the images in Aperture, you are looking at a logical representation of your collection, not how they are stored on the disk. (to take this to a logical absurdity, every image could live in a single folder on the hard disk but in Aperture you could have organised them into 100 different Projects...).
Aperture has some quite cool brushes, which are more powerful than initially appreciated.  You can, for example, brush in curves...
On the downside, Aperture lacks an adjustment history for the image and "undo" works for the last adjustment only.  This isn't as bad as it sounds, as the sequence of adjustments should be from top to bottom of the list in any case...
Aperture is non-modal - processing and organising all happen in the one interface.
That's it for now - I'm sure there are other things, but be prepared to "think different"...

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