Trying to make aperture faster. which hardware do I upgrade?

Hello,
I am no longer satisfied with my aperture work flow speed and while I have been considering upgrading to a new mac pro, I have been told that the lack of optimization for it wouldn't do me much good. hence I figured I'd describe my hardware and workflow and see if any of you could give me a hint as to what upgrades could improve my speeds.
my hardware:
17@ mid 2010 mbp
2.66 ghz, i7
8gb ram
nvidia geoforce gt 330m 512mb
os x 10.7.5
500GB hd, 300GB of that are available
my workflow:
I tend to shoot with two canon 5d mkIII and a vast amount of 16 to 64gb cf cards.
shooting raw, I easily produce 400 image files (each at 20-25mb) per session.
these get imported onto the hd and then go straight onto a FW 800 external drive.
I do this mainly because I noticed that the computer gets slow when more than 60% of my hd is filled.
I import the images into a new cataloge into aperture and do retouching using the vsco film plugins.
my problems:
having more than 200 images means the computer slows down radically.
I used to think it was because it sourced the originals on the external fw800 drive but that doesn't seem to be the issue.
my impression is that it's simply struggling with the size of the library.
I noticed that retouch brushes when zoomed in at 100% can't follow my mouse. they just can't keep up.
closing all other apps seems to make no difference.
this seems to be rather basic to me (i.e. since photoshop brushes never have an issue following my cursor)
my wants:
I would like to eliminate the various "waiting times" during retouching and I am willing to invest in upgrading my hardware.
my questions:
- is this a case where upgrading to a 27"imac is the only good option? my ram is maxed out, the only thing I could see doing to this laptop is getting an ssd.
- would you still choose an imac in spite of the lack of thunderbolt 2? (future proofing — I use new machines for 3-5 years)
- would a mac mini provide significant performance boost in aperture?
thank you!

Hi
I'm using Aperture on 2009 20" iMac - it's a core duo processor with 320Gb HDD of which 235Gb is free and has 8Gb RAM. I store my photos on an external FireWire HDD using a referenced library.
I don't experience any slowness when processing in Aperture - I'm certainly not getting the spinning beach ball, and I'm not experiencing any of the issues with brushes you describe. I notice from your signature that you're using OS 10.7.5 - I assume you have not updated to the latest version of Aperture which I believe requires Mavericks. This might be worth considering. It might be worth upgrading your OS and Aperture to see if this makes a difference before you embark on a costly hardware upgrade.
I've always been advised that increasing RAM provides a speed boost, but this is not an option in your case.
I would guess that the latest iMacs would be faster than either of our machines, but how much faster I'm not sure - increasing RAM TO 16Gb would certainly help, along with the new SSD/HDD Drive - but at a cost.
How close are you to an Apple Store - I'd be inclined to go in and ask for a demo of Aperture running on the latest MacBook Pros and iMacs to see whether it is worth upgrading.
Hope this helps

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