Performance on 1.5GHz PPc G4 & 1.6GHz PPc G5?

Hi,
I have Aperture at home and it runs brilliantly on iMac 2.16GHz with 2.5 gigs of Ram. I am putting forward proposals at work for software and Aperture is high on my list but how will it run on a 17" PB 1.5GHz PPc G4 and 1.6GHz PPc G5. Both only have a 1Gb of Ram so that will defiantly need upgrading, however how much do they hold and what would you recommend?
Thanks
Grant

... in order to make it run the way it's supposed to, you'd probably have to get tons of RAM plus the hottest graphics card available. And I'd say that that isn't sufficient, it will still run comparatively slow.
No, really, to impress someone with Aperture you'd need to showcase it on really hot hardware. Else everyone'll say "Hey, this is a cool program, but we'd need to buy new Macs to be able to actually use it".
Now that just may be what Apple's hoping for...
Cheers,
k.

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