Two-computer workflow advice?

I have a desktop Intel iMac; soon I'll have a Mac Book Pro to replace my PB G4, and it will be practical to run Aperture on both (day to day, and for traveling with the MBP). But what is the best way? If I want to import and edit images, not just view them, on both machines, then I see three general methods:
1. A single library on a portable external drive (the Library chosen in Preferences on bboth machines -- not just referenced masters). Advantage: automatic syncing of work on the two machines. Disadvantage: without the portable drive, nothing's available at all.
The other alternatives use separate but identical libraries (with managed images) on the two machines. To synchronize the libraries:
2. Maintain a vault on an external drive. When work on one machine is done, update the vault. Then restore the Library from that vault on the other machine. (I haven't actually tried this.) OR
3. Work with Projects instead: when work is done on one computer, Export the Project(s) and Import it/them on the other.
I'm assuming both machines have internal drives big enough for the whole library. Also that that referencing images doesn't much help, or make a lot of difference, in these scenarios. Also that Previews are a separate question (could be handled differently on the two computers). So my questions are:
- do people use all these methods?
- have I left something out, possibly something obvious?
- are there big advantages or disadvantages I might be ignoring?
This kind of workflow must be pretty common. It would be nice to have some word from Apple, in the shape of one of those useful online Documents perhaps, about the various approaches. (I've searched but haven't found anything like that.)
Thanks for any counsel.

You may be right that exporting/importing Projects is
the way to go.
But this situation is only in the very narrowest
sense an instance of multi-user access to a database.
The Aperture license lets you install on two
machines. (You can't run on both if they're networked
together, which means in practice that you have to
turn off Airport on one.) The user will presumably be
using only one copy of Aperture at a time, and
changes to the database will occur only from one at a
time.
It's a shame Aperture doesn't have a built-in way to
sync these, which puts it off on the user: it's
obviously vital to remember to update before you do
new work on both machines, creating an impossible
sync situation.
Still, the question should only be how a user (with a
desktop and a laptop) can most efficiently, and
reliably (rememberably!) do that.
I fully agree. Way back at version 1.0 I made that feature request: an Aperture-specific documented/supported protocol for the (typical for photogs) use of Aperture on a laptop in the field and then later on a desktop.
It is an enterprise-critical issue for a huge portion of Aperture's user base, but unfortunately Apple still has not accomodated. Perhaps Apple is waiting for some other app to build a great field-laptop to office-desktop workflow, and steal Aperture market share.
-Allen Wicks

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