No update can improve speed on Quad 6600?..

Have I, as an owner of a G5 Quad with a NVidia 6600-video card, understood this correctly:
1. Aperture relies heavily on videocard performance, as opposed to Light Room, Photoshop, Canon DPP etc.
2. The NVidia 6600 is not sufficent for Aperture to run smoothly.
3. I can't upgrade my video card to a NVidia 7800.
4. There's is no way that any Aperture upgrade of any kind will solve this problem, as that would mean rewriting the entire code of the software, to make it less dependant of video card performance.
Is it really as bad?...
K.
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Jeyell is correct. There are many of us here that purchased our new Macs with the intent of using Aperture. The 6600 video card was originally on the recommended list....no longer. On this page it isn't even a minimum requirement......
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/0.RSLID?mco=8 D19F826&nplm=MA438Z%2FA
In the first month of the announcement, the Quad didn't have the 7800 video card as an option. My Quad had already shipped when the 7800 was added to the video card options. Aperture was also in my order with my new Quad with the 6600 video card.
Now after several months, the 6600 card has been removed, yet Apple has done nothing to help compensate those with the 6600 card. They won't even let us upgrade to the 7800.
My friend has a MacBook Pro with Aperture and doesn't get the Spinning Ball of Death like I do.
There is a small minority of us here with this problem and Apple has swept us under the carpet. I have sent several letters to Support and spent hours on the phone with Customer Relations. The most I was ever offered in compensation was $40 off on a $200 purchase in their store, ie. give us another $160 of your money and go away.
Keep up the battle.
Narvon
Quad 2.5, 6600, 4GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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