Aperture, Macbook Air, Thumbnail Size

I am planning on using Aperture on my desktop, but
would like to be able to sync my Aperture Library (with referenced originals)
to my MacBook Air, mainly for viewing.
Since the same previews will be used on my desktop and laptop,
I will generate 1900X1200 medium quality previews. I figured
out that this should take about 250K, and with the addition
of other data should come out to about 300K per image on average.
Thus, a library of, say, 50K images, should consume about 15GB.
Quite a lot for a 80GB MBA disk, but bearable.
Unfortunately, I found out that the average storage per image is
about 700K, with half of it devoted to the thumbnail.
I did not expect that, since thumbnails are only 1024X768 as far as I know.
Apparently they are not compressed much. This will yield
a 30GB library which is too large for my MBA.
My questions:
- Is there any way to make the thumbnail more compressed?
- Any other strategies for using MBA for viewing (and maybe organizing)
Aperture libraries?
Meanwhile, somebody pointed to me a discussion in this forum about referenced libraries not shrinking after deleting images. This will make the whole idea even less attractive .
Thanks
Shaul

There are plenty of strategies for working with multiple computers. They usually involve exporting/importing projects. If you would like a brief summary of how to do this I will be glad to provide a sort of guide on multi machine workflow that works for many of us that work on location and have a main library back at the base.
If you want to carry around a sort of "best of" on your MBA and also have a few working project the best way to do that is:
1) Create a new empty project on your main machine.
2) Set up a library level smart album for what ever your "best of" or greatest hit or whatever are.
3) Drag that smart album into the new project. (doesn't really matter but will keep you organized)
4) Select all the images in that smart album and use new from selection->album (this is required trust me)
5) Use file export project on that new project that contains the album just created
6) Import the project on to your MBA
Now you have all of the stuff that you really want on your MBA, to update it Just re-do steps 4-6 every once in a while. Obviously get rid of that project off of your MBA when you do.
As for other in progress projects create them on either library and use import export library any time you like to take it with you or put the project into your main library. When you export a project it will consolidate the masters into the exported project. When you import a project the masters will be managed, just use relocate master to put them where they belong in your main library.
IF you want some more info or this is not clear let me know.
RB

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