Macbook Pro vs Macbook Air for Aperture while traveling

I have an old Macbook (white) that we've used for years while traveling, but Aperture 3 can't be used on it so I need to upgrade. (My MAIN computer is a 21" Imac). I will use it only for traveling to download photos each night and be able to review them, delete them, etc. and make DVDs of photos to serve as a backup. Once at home, the photos that have made it through the early elimination phase will be downloaded (with their masters) to the Imac...then deleted off the laptop.
Question: Is the Macbook Air WITH the external DVD burner, and 128 gb SS going to be what I need without overkill? OR...is the MBP that includes the DVD burner and has the 500 gb HD going to be what I need. Is the SS drive going to be more reliable for travel? (I'm careful with my 'puters.)
I'm an avid photographer, so will be using possibly two full 16 gb cards each day. (I take over 100 gb worth of cards with me.)
Price IS a consideration...would like to keep the price as low as I can.
Thanks.

Sorry I forgot the 4 GB RAM max of the MBP. My recommendation (based on your only-2-choices spec) still stands. I agree that the 4 GB is a very major limitation, not so much today but over the life of the box. The good news is that pages to SSD slow operation but are much less problematic than pages to HDD are.
Laptop 2.5" hard drives basically sujck from a boot drive performance standpoint.
However if we do not constrain to just your original 2 specific choices I would choose a MBP:
• The low end MBP can be had with SSD for +$200, IMO far preferable to MBA or HDD MBP. And RAM can go to 8 or 16 GB via third party as needed; also a 1 TB HDD can replace the Superdrive.
• My personal preference is to sell the iMac and go with a strong SSD MBP + external display as discussed in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3848416?tstart=0
HTH
-Allen

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