SLOW going on Aperture 3.1 on MacBook Pro 1.83ghz

Ok so recently upgraded to Aperture 3.1 and it is as slow as molasses. Simple editing tasks not even in fullscreen mode are painfully slow--adjusting exposures, recovery, highlights, shadows, etc. I have to shutdown all other open programs and cancel all background tasks in Aperture i.e. thumbnail processing or whatever and still it crawls. The CPU usage in Activity monitor consistently shows between 100 and 180% when actively working on single images. Has Aperture outgrown my trusty MacBook Pro or is something wrong here folks? I upgraded thinking it would be better optimized for my older system but my post production times are seriously crippled. Any suggestions for what might be going on? Thanks in advance!

Your 2006 laptop is an early Core Duo before the Core 2 Duos. At 1.83 GHz clock speed and max of 2 GB RAM Aperture performance will be poor. Sorry.
As a frame of reference Geekbench ranks your MBP at about 2300, my slightly newer C2D MBP at ~3000, and a modern i7 MBP at ~6000.:
http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/
Looks like it is time for us to upgrade. Me especially, because even though it works, my box is full of hot chocolate...
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