Export images come larger than the original

The other night I did an event shoot and imported JPG photos into Aperture. The file size on average was about 1.5mb/photo, but when I exported the photos, they came out to be like 5.7mb/photo or greater. I couldn't understand why the exporting processing was taking so long, and I discovered it was because the files were too large. This seems to be happening only in Aperture in my laptop. It doesn't seem to happen with Aperture on my Mac Pro. Anyone else experience this problem? Solution?

I can't recall if it defaults to 10 or 12. 12 makes pretty large files, as you've seen
As to "enough" for your photos -- how are you printing? This only affects saved JPEGs. If you're creating files and sending them to a web site for printing... they'll still probably be good enough at 8x10. The real issue is repeatedly re-saving JPEGs over themselves... each time you do a little more quality is lost (JPEG is a "lossy" compression so each time you re-save you lose some more). A single save is probably just fine. But I wouldn't save at quality 9 and then save over it again and again after I'd thrown out my original.

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