Aperture’s speed on MacBook Pro with Canon CR2 raw files

I’ve just started using the Universal Binary Aperture 1.1 on my MacBook Pro, and it seems quite speedy.  I’ve done a brief test and added the results to my Apple MacBook Pro Experience Report.  In short, performance is impressive, but memory use temporarily approaches 700MB real memory while batch-exporting—so plan on installing 2GB of RAM into you MacBook Pro if you intend to use Aperture.

Aperture checks its serial number on the network

I inadvertantly started Aperture 1.1 on my Quad while I had left it idle on my MacBook Pro—it apparently checks the network for other copies with the same serial number because it reports that the other copy is running, then quits.  Not a problem for me, as I have no need to run both at the same time or to use it improperly, but it’s worth knowing.