Apperture faster on old IMac than Mac Pro

OK so I've been slaving away for weeks in the studio using my 2.66 Quad core Mac Pro with 3GB RAM and putting up with slow, really slow performance from Aperture thinking that I really must upgrade my RAM.
Then tonight I just want to look at some family pics at home on my iMac with a measly 1.5GB RAM and I find it is lightning fast in comparison. Any suggestions? I have the Radeon 512 card in the Mac Pro and a 30" cinema display. This should be faster than the iMAc right?

The generation of previews is to allow sharing of images with ilife and other apps, the also allow drag'n'drop from aperture to the desktop. They can be switched-off universally or all on or on with a per-project basis (i have it this way).
The settings are at the top of the project pane (cog) and in the prefs (for their quality and ON for importing). I suspect if you check the task panel under window it will show its generating previews. Leave it until its finished it does take a long time to complete, but the MP should still be useable, albeit slower until its done. when i recently deleted all my previews which were set at a high quality level of 10, i regenerated them all at 6 and it took over 24 hours, but saved over 10% in disk space without detriment to occasional preview use in ilife. My library is 80% .cr2 raw, 100GB.
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