Aperture on 2 Machines with Large Raw Files

So I bet this has been covered but I still cant find an answer.
I have the need to be able to edit my library on multiples machines (my macbook and iMac). I need to be able to edit some shoot when I travel and do final edits when I get back to the studio.
I am currently housing all my libraries (one for each year) on a portable lache rugged HD (using firewire).
When I want to edit, I just access plug my HD into either machine and open the library. I keep all my original RAW files on the portable drive.
My problem is that I shoot with a 21mp Canon 5d mk ii and the RAW files are huge, so running off the portable drive is really slow.
Does anyone have a better solution? or a way to make things faster?

I don't think there's an obvious way to speed things up without changing your workflow.
FW 800 is the fastest external connection available to an iMac (if the MB has an Expresscard slot you could use eSATA, which is quicker, but that doesn't help with the iMac.
The workflow change would be to maintain the Aperture Library on the internal HD, and use the portable drive to keep them in sync.

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So, my questions:
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2. The problem here isn't that this is an exception -- it's that different people mean different things when they say "RAW". The RAW data is RAW data. As above, the WB setting has no effect on it. But the image derived from the data -- any image produced from the data -- much have a WB set (and, for human use, a tone-curve applied). Some people mistaken think that RAW is an image format, or that the image produced by the RAW converter is a "RAW" image. It is not. RAW data must be converted to an image format in order to be displayed as an image. The conversion must apply a WB.
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