Illustrator renders effects slowly even with Document Raster Settings at 72 dpi

In Ai CS6 using either PC or Mac platforms with more than adequate memory, effects render slowly with each edit.
InDesign however will display edits that affect the exact same effects without any delay. Why can't Illustrator emulate InDesign?
It's a chore to dig through appearances of multiple objects, turn them off, make edits, turn them on to check edits, turn them off to re-edit, turn them back on to save.
In addition, the resulting Illustrator files are bloated by comparison, by factor of 10.
For example, a gradient with transparency above a transparent object with shadow above some other raster image.

I don't know if this will help, but check Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disks. Make sure the Primary and Secondary slots reference hard drives with plenty of empty space.
You say this is happening on both Mac and PC? How much ram on each system? What operating systems?

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I have 411 GB (out of 500) of free memory. I don't run multiple apps at once--usually I will run Chrome and Word, and then if I absolutely must, also Excel or Powerpoint, but I really try to use at most 3 at a time, and then I still have these severe problems. Sometimes I only have Word open and I still have these problems. My desktop is not cluttered; I clean it out regularly so I have like 5 files on there, pretty much all screenshots. My downloads folder does not have a billion files in it; it has accumulated some but I do make an effort to clean it regularly so there really isn't much. I don't have tons of music or movies or pictures or anything on my computer, and I also clean out my deleted files in the trash regularly.
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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
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When I go to print it as a PDF, I select "Custom" and set the parameters at 6"x9".
Then the resulting PDF is still on 8.5"x11", with only half the page (the right half) with text on it.

Hi Peter,
Here's how I get custom pages in my PDFs:
In the print dialog, select the Adobe PDF Printer.
Click the "printer properties" link near the printer name.
In the Adobe PDF Document Properties dialog, click the "Adobe PDF Settings" tab.
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Click the "Add..." button on the right.
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Click Add/Modify.
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Welcome to the Community!
It might sound daft but have you tried a few of the different ringtones to see if any are louder?
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I have a 1024px square artboard (in Illustrator CS6 16.1.0 running on Mountain Lion 10.8.1) with some fairly simply artwork that has a drop shadow effect applied, shown here at 33% with the Document Raster Effects Settings (DRES) resolution set to 150 DPI:
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I am wanting to upload my logo to my credit card company to put on the face of my new card.
obviously this will be small in size (1.5"x3") but the cc company requires the upload be at least 400pixels x 400pixels.
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I am not certain I understand the need to pen this in photoshop and all this other stuff but you can simply export it as a jpeg.
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Willi Adelberger, to answer your questions,
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Warning: the document raster effects resolution is 72 ppi or less

How do I address / fix the issue that leads to this WARNING when saving my Illustrator CS6 file? All embedded images are 300 ppi.

Kristen,
The warning has nothing to do with your images.
It is simply a statement that tells you that you have not set Effect>Document Raster Effects Settings higher than the default screen value of 72 PPI.
If you have no raster effects applied to your vector artwork there is no need to worry.
If you have, you should consider which value is suitable.

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You are showing us a screensht of InDesign which is different from Illustrator.
I do not believe that ID has a raster effects setting.
This is the Illust6rator Frum you are mixing up the tw different applications, they are not the same.
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