C2D MacBook Pro upgrade to 200 GB internal

Several questions:
1. Is it possible to upgrade to a 200 GB internal from a 160 GB drive. Could I take my computer to an Apple Store and have them do this
2. How much practical difference will I see. Most of my work is photoshop and Aperture with referenced images on an external USB 2.0 drive?
I have searched on the site but can not find clear answers.
Thanks
Steven

I think what I am asking is an Aperture question...I currently store my images on an external 160 GB Western Digital drive as referenced files. When I have completed the majority of the work on a project that resides on my MacBook Pro/160GB external I can export it as a project to the 160 GB WD, take the 160 GB WD drive to my G5, import the project and now the G5 and my laptop have identical information.
A week or two later, client calls and says "can you..and I will pay you $$$$" so I say ok..and start working on cleaning up and modifying images on my laptop. Now the data on the laptop and the G5 are different and I would like to make sure that they are the same, assuming I am now closing the project again.
I am seeking options to make all of the new stuff gets over to the G5, which is my archival system primarily?
1. I guess I could relocate the masters to my external 160 GB drive (getting the photoshop images off of my internal and freeing space up) AND also export the revised project consolidating the images to the 160 GB external. I could then go to my G5 computer with the 160 GB external, import the revised project and delete the original one. The revised project would be up to date and I would have no need for the original one to be archived. This would work if I had only 1 or 2 revised projects, but in fact there are about a dozen....and doing all of that exporting and deleting seems like a formula for disaster!!
2. I think it may be possible to relocate all of the managed pictures to a special folder (call it Spring Clean up)onmy160GB external. I then could generate a new project called "Spring Clean up-2007", put a new album in the "Spring Clean up-2007" project (that way I don't move these pictures to a new project). I could then export "Spring Clean up-2007" Project, consolidating images, to the external 160 GB drive. Take the external, connect to the G5 and import "Spring Clean up-2007" Project. The pictures in the imported "Spring Clean.." project would have the full version and master data attached. At that point, I could just select the pictures in the Spring Clean Up Project and drag them back to the parent project on the G5 and presumably the master file and all the version changes would go back to the parent project. Of course I might have some duplicates but at least all the data would be there.
Back to the laptop, I could remove all the images from the album in the project "Spring Clean up", thus leaving the masters and version data intact in the original projects and then I could use the relocate masters function to put whatever new masters existed in the original project folders
thought and suggestions.. does anyone else work with a laptop and a desktop and how have they solved this problem?
thanks
steven

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