Bridge CS3 Previews/Slideshow Scaling Too Slow on Powerbook G4 15"

I've been using Photoshop CS3 itself for months and it's plenty fast. Bridge, on the other hand, is unusable for me right now because when I click an 6-megapixel jpeg image, a fuzzy/blotchy preview showed immediately, but it takes a full seven seconds for a high-quality preview to show. The exact same thing occurs in the slideshow mode. Of course, once the high-quality preview has been cached, it shows up instantly, but this is a real issue for newly-viewed files.
Is this a known issue? If so, is there a way to make the high-quality preview reasonably fast, so that there's only a delay of a second or two max?
Graphic Converter is quite snappy for previews and full-screen slideshows on this ~1.6 Ghz G4, but I would prefer to use Bridge for its advanced organizing features and integration with Photoshop.
Thank you for your help,
Cameron

>It makes no difference whether your files originated as 10- or 12-megapixel digital camera files or as 120 MB 16-bit Tiff scans, 4,000 images are still 4,000 images!
 
 Actually, no. How files originate makes
 b all
 the difference!
 
 E.g. a film scan is by definition very slow, so processing, sorting, culling, stacking all occur prior to a few hero images being selected for scanning. Those activities occur manually rather than in software.
 
 Similarly - again with no disrespect intended - your 4000 images captured over weeks on a slow digicam with a film-centric mindset are
 b nothing
 like capturing hundreds or thousands of shots, many of
 i dynamic subjects,
 during intense DSLR RAW shooting of a day or two.
 
 E.g. the other day I was alone (meaning no helper to control the feisty new pup) walking my new lab puppy during failing light and decided to shoot a pic for emailing to friends. I would run away from the puppy, turn around and shoot continuous high speed autofocus pix of Ruby as she ran toward me. Even though Ruby can run almost as fast as I can, in 5 minutes of failing light I had shot 50-100 12 MP RAW images that then needed to be keyworded, stacked, stacks reviewed for ranking and culls, and an email generated.
 
 
<a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ybNMDLvrZ84DrWBMZ0a5QE8fKUkY" /></a>
<img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1ybNMDLvrZ84DrWBMZ0a5QE8fKUkY_thumb.jpg" border="0" />
 Nikon D2x, f/4, 85mm.
 
 The whole process was easy and fast. With a low end point-and-shoot in failing light I would not have had 50 properly exposed, properly focused naturally lit pix that needed close comparative evaluation. At best one would end up with one or two focused keepers; no fancy software necessary to cull a dozen out-of-focus pix.
 
 My point is simply that folks who are evolving into DSLR workflows, especially those of dynamic subjects like people (with constantly changing expressions that are well suited to shooting stacks of quick image captures), should beef up their hardware, buy the Aperture tutorial/CD, download the Aperture and/or LR trials and check out a modern workflow.

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