Complicated Problem with Aperture/Older Macs

Hope someone can help me figure this out?   I will try to be as concise as possible.
I have a 2006 Mac Pro that will only run as high as 10.7.5 and will NOT run Aperture 3.X   On that Mac I have Aperture 2.X with over 4K images.
I also have two MBPs.  One is a Mid 2010, on which I stupidly loaded Mavericks without realizing how it would screw up working with my Mac Pro.  The other is a brand new MBP which has 10.10.X on it.  So far, I have not even moved my aperture library to this new MBP.
So; I am stuck in a seam here.  I can't run Aperture 3.X on my Mac Pro, but I can't run Aperture 2.X on my older MBP. I can't upgrade my Mac Pro, but have already upgraded past point of no return on my older MBP.    I have a somewhat large (30+gig) aperture library in Aperture 2.X I want to preserve of course.
I have read everything I can find about Apple moving to one platform i.e. Photos from both Aperture and iPhoto, and have read that I will be "fine".  Whenever someone tells me I will be "fine" I start to worry.
If this is understandable and someone can help, I appreciate it.
Thanks

I agree that Mr. Lloyd has offered some good conservative advice. But this is a complicated problem. Since you do have a new MBP running Yosemite, I would suggest that you update to the latest version of Yosemite on this new MBP and then purchase the latest (and apparently last) 3.6 version of Aperture and 9.6 version of iPhoto that will be offered in the App store - and then download both Aperture3.6 and the latest version of iPhoto 9.6 to your new Yosemite MBP.
Then go back to your mid 2010 MBP that is running Mavericks, and update that platform to the latest version of Yosemite. Then you can download the latest version of Aperture 3.6 (since you just purchased it for your newest MBP) and iPhoto 9.6 to your updated Yosemite-running 2010 MB. Then you can easily convert your old Aperture 3.X libraries on that 2010 MBP (now Yosemite-running) machine to the latest Aperture vers 3.6 and iPhoto vers 9.6 that you have previously purchased, downloaded and installed.
As for the "ancient" Aperture 2.X library images on your ten year-old MacBook, I would leave them where they are on the machine - carefully backed up and verified on at least one external drive. Since you cannot update that old MacBook to a current viable version of OSX Yosemite, you obviously cannot use the latest version of Aperture or iPhoto on that machine either. BUT, I do believe you can still download a more current (but older) version of iPhoto to your old MacBook, which would then allow you to convert your old Aperture 2.X libraries to newer iPhoto libraries which you could then export and convert to currentiPhoto 9.6 version libraries that you have already installed on your current OSX MBPro's. And once you have created an iPhoto 9.6 library - you can immediately open that iPhoto 9.6 library in the latest Aperture 3.6 version.
IMHO, it is always easier to try and keep all your multiple mac platforms updated and running the same OSX  - and updated and running the latest versions of all important cross-platform software.

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