Powerbook: a definitive advise

i use a powerbook 15" - 1,67 ghz - 1mb ram - ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 128MB of ddr sdram as a graphic video card - 100/7200 rpm hd
at present time i use lightroom and iphoto but i understand aperture as a more advanced instrument and really would like use it. i am an amateur usually shooting jpg in high quality and few raw (say 200/300 per year).
do you think i can really use aperture or is better for me stay in lightroom?
many thanks indeed.

I'm running it on the 15" Powerbook 1.5GHZ with same video card as you and 2GB RAM. Like the other 2 comments, it does work on this configuration, but slows down at times. It's a great ap, and I plan to continue using it. I do, however, plan to purchase one of the new iMacs primarily because it will run Aperture much more quickly and give me much more screen space to make use of such a good ap. My photography is becoming a larger part of my work, and it's worth the investment. I won't lie, there are definitely times when I'm a bit frustrated with the speed, but all in all, the quality of the workflow makes up for it and allows me to get my work done.
I have looked at Lightroom (not extensively), and while it looks nice, Aperture is nicer and since it was a "finished" product (see others comments on this forum about bugs and complaints about features), I have already made the investment and gone through the learning curve. I think I made the right choice. I have been following this forum for a while, and I think Joe Schorr and the Aperture Team are responsive and working very hard at improving the ap (fixing bugs, adding features, fiine tuning code to increase speed) on a daily basis, and this gives me confidence in my choice.
I would also recommend that you upgrade to 2GB of RAM.

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