Aperture with iMac 24"

Hi! I'm new in this discussions.
I would like to know what do you think with this combination:
Apple iMac 24" 3.0.6GHZ with 4GB RAM running Aperture.
I'm not a really professional photographer but I shot 15/20.000 photos by year.
Now I'm using an iMac 2.16GHZ C2D + 3GB RAM 20" and there are a slow reaction with a project with 50/100photos. I know that this is not a great machine to run Aperture but...
I'm looking for a new Apple iMac 24" 3.0.6GHZ with 4GB RAM.
Please tell me some about your experience.
At home I have a Powermac G4 733. So many years ago I bought PRO mac but now there's no a lot of money...
Thanks to all
Koferc
p.s.
sorry about my english

I went from an old (white) iMac with 2GB RAM to a 2.8Ghz 24" iMac with 4GB RAM. Aperture renders the RAW images in about twice the speed. The adjustments are still clunky especially when the image is cropped or zoomed but this seems to be an issue for many people even those with Mac Pro's.

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Thanks all for those very helpful answers.
Let me try a quantitative question.
Here is how long it takes for three different file
sizes to load on my iMac G5 in PS CS2, with 1.3gB of
the toal of 2gB memory dedicated to PS:
5 mB JPG - 2 seconds
50 mB TIF - 7 seconds
250 mB TIF - 10 seconds
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appoximately?
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Consider your load time of a 50MB TIFF. What to compare in Aperture? I'll use a 63MB 16-bit TIFF on my computer (specs below) as an example:
* Import itself takes 5 seconds
* Switching to the image in Aperture to work with takes two or three seconds, unless you've already been working with it in Aperture you have loaded - then it's zero seconds.
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