Using Aperture long trip with MB Air

I am a photographer and recently bought a refurb MB Air 11" from Apple. It is 1.4Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of DDR3 and 3MB of cache. It uses Nvidia Gforce 320M video with 256mb. I am going on a very long trip overseas and bought this to take instead of my MBPro 17" main computer to save space and weight and also for the non volatile memory for downloaded key shots. My main processing tool is Aperture. Since the Air only has 128GB of main ram, I'll be bringing a 500GB Lacie Rugged remote USB drive as the main download tool to connect to the Air. I shoot Nikon and Lumix. Any hints or problems I should look out for? Any thoughts about migration to Lion and potential cloud back up? Thanks.

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