Can Aperture actively work w/ images on an external HD?

I assumed that Aperture could work in a distributed mode; ie, acitvely display, compare, & adjust files stored on external HDs, but it appears not- all files must be physically loaded on the computer's internal hard drive. Is this true? If so, seems like quite a shortfall.
I have a 60GB HD on my G4 Powerbook, but figured my two 250GB externals could tie in. Appears that I have to import & export projects, individual images, etc. to preclude stuffing my internal HD with every photo I want to readily access
If this is a dumb or over-asked question, I apologize in advance. Thanks,
Bob
G4 Powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   User since Apple IIe

Your intenal drive is SATA 7200rpm. That's a low latency, high burst rate capable solution .... and my gut call is faster than an external FW800 with 7200rpm drive (BTW, not all FW800 enclosures and chipsets give the same throughput).
I have to assume the guy at Apple was not referring to speed but the lack of hdd space available internal to a laptop. An AP library for a pro- / prosumer is going to be big. Mine was 145Gb last time I looked. Internal drives in a laptop can't compete on space and AP cannot span a library across multiple drives.
Compromise for speed and space..... Consider holding your library on the external drive, and exporting your current project to the laptop internal. Reset your preferences to point at an internal path/folder, kick off AP again and import the project. Putting your project back into the PRIME library is pretty much the reverse. (AP designers put this capability in place to support laptop users in the field while their library was back at the ranch.)
Hope this helps.

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