Aperture image to external editor is SLOW

Wondering if anyone else is having an issue with opening their images up using their "external editor" option in Aperture.
Mine is set to Photoshop, which I'm sure many of you have. But it takes upwards of a minute for the Aperture image to duplicate itself and then open up in PS. It triples the time of my workflow -- which is a pain when I need to edit dozens of images in PS.
Anyone have any suggestions? My computer is brand-new and quite fast. But perhaps there's a logical answer that I have yet to discover.
Thanks.

How much RAM do you have? You'll want 2 GB to do what you want.
There are a few things going on here:
1) Photoshop is a large application... it takes a while to load on any hardware
2) Photoshop is not yet a universal application. It runs in Rosetta, which is an emulation layer. This makes it slower (probably 2-3x slower than on a PowerPC; so your MacBook running Photoshop at current is probably about as fast as an 800 MHz PowerBook).
3) Rosetta uses lots of RAM as well. So Photoshop in Rosetta while you're using Aperture will really tax the machine.
I'd recommend you run nothing else on the machine at all but Aperture and Photoshop. Quit mail, quit safari, quit anything but those two applications. Your life will get better when Photoshop CS3 comes out (March/April) and is universal. Until then, yeah, it's going to be a little on the slow side.

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