New MacBook Pro's for Aperture

Apple just released their new MacBooks.
A graphic on the Apple site claims the Core 2 Duo will be 28% faster with Aperture. The LED display is claimed to display "blacker blacks and whiter whites and many more colors in between" as well as being the "ideal vehicle for displaying high-resolution Photoshop images".
The new graphics performance is said to be 57% faster than the original core-due based MacBook Pro.
Sounds like the ultimate Aperture/Photo editing laptop!

I'm very excited about these new models as well, particularly the LED backlighting. I'm upgrading from a 3-year-old PowerMac G4, 1.5Ghz, so I should see a performance boost almost no matter which one I pick. I wonder if LED backlighting saves on battery time?
Anyhow, looking at my choices for 15" laptop it's basically 2.2Ghz vs. 2.4Ghz, 160GB vs. 120GB, and 128MB video RAM vs. 256MB video RAM. Everything else looks the same -- correct?
Given that my primary use is photography (Photoshop CS3 and Aperture), my questions are:
1. Is 2GB RAM enough? It seems to be on my G5 tower.
2. Will I see any difference between the two video cards?
If it's just texture RAM, probably not, but if there
are more pipelines in the 256MB version or something,
Aperture will likely be sensitive to it. I sure got
bitten hard with my G5 tower's video card!
3. Should I opt for the 7200RPM drive? Is it going to
make a significant performance difference vs. the extra
power drainage?
4. The 0.2Ghz CPU difference seems completely unimportant,
but if there's extra cache on the 2.4Ghz model or some
other enhancement, it could make a real difference.
Thanks much,
ALF

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