Lightroom workflow help (from an aperture user)

I'm testing out the demo version of LR3 trying to determine if I want to switch over from Aperture to LR. To be honest, I've flip flopped between the two a couple of years ago. I haven't taken a look at Lightroom since it went to version 3.
I'm using two cameras, first is an aging D70s and my newest addition is a canon G12. In both cases I shoot in RAW. At this point in my life would consider myself as a quasi-serious amatuar. Family demands prevent me from going whole hog into photography but I love shooting my family and vacations.
First question which may open up some debate - converting my RAW images to DNG. What advantages will I have in doing so? Secondly should I use adobe's DNG converter, i.e., external app or let Lightroom convert to DNG on import.
Second question - I'll be going on vacation and taking my laptop, yet my desktop is my main computer. How best handle the fact that I'll be doing some post process work on my MBP and then exporting/transferring those images to my desktop. Obviously my aim is to retain any metadata (keywords, and other exif data) and any image editing that I apply
As I compare and contrast Aperture vs. Lightroom, getting this information will aide in my decision as to whether LR is a good fit for me needs or if I should stick with aperture.
I my post a couple more aperture vs. lightroom questions in the next day or so
Regards
Mike

I would imagine that metadata for a xmp sidecar or dng work in the same way where only the metadata is updated and not the whole file re-writen. I would like to know if this is true or false from someone here at adobe as it would change my current view on dng. As far as backup and transfering between people here is my take:
I thought this too a while ago in a similar discussion, but I was convincingly shown that on current filesystems this is not generally possible and in most cases the entire file has to be rewritten. That's not a big deal for an occasional file but if you work with lots of dngs, writing 15 MB is very different from writing 10kB or so. This becomes especially egregious in networked settings. I too consider the writing of metadata inside dngs a disadvantage because of this reason. I would realloy like it if Lightroom had the option to use xmp sidecars instead if writing to the file. I don't want anything to write to my originals if I don't specifically ask for it. Together with the incompatibility with camera maker tools (which is an issue once in a while for me), I just don't bother. Lightroom doesn't care, ACR doesn't care. I do use dng when I export a few raw files to share with others using Lightroom so that I have a nice contained package that has all relevant copyright metadata inside. This is rare however.

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