Lightroom vs Photo Mechanic

I shoot weddings and would love to know how to get lightroom to run like Photo Mechanic during my culling phase. It just takes so long for lightroom to render the shots before I can check sharpness etc. I hate having to use Photo Mechanic to cull then re open all of it in Lightroom. Anyone know how to get lightroom running faster for this phase without me altering my images in other software. Perhaps Adobe my look at a module in Lightroom that works like Photo Mechanic.
Here are my Specs
Lightrrom 5.3
imac 27inch
Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)

My experience is that culling in Lightroom's library module is pretty-darn fast *if/when* library previews are up to date.
I don't know how it compares to PhotoMechanic since I've never used it. But, the keys for maximum culling speed in Lr are:
* Optimized performance when previews built (stepping from photo to photo is nearly instantaneous for me, OK, there's a noticeable lag, but it's a *small* fraction of a second. I dunno how to do help with this if it's not already happening for you.
* Assuring library previews are up to date. They stay up to date unless you make changes, which, unfortunately, I like to be able to do whilst culling, but if you can find a way to keep those two pieces separate, i.e. cull and only cull with up-to-date previews, it's pretty fast.
Cheers,
Rob

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ME: ...a Canon 1Ds raw file is sent to PhotoShop as a 288x192 pixel image!
PM: That's the exact size of the thumbnail inside the 1Ds TIF file. Aperture, (actually ImageIO which Aperture uses to render RAW files) has a fairly naive parser for some file formats. Files that have been modified at all render ImageIO useless with some files. We have filed numerous bug reports with Apple on this issue and only a small portion have been addressed. When Aperture exports a file for editing, it creates a new file and in this case this new file has lost all of the RAW data. It is no longer present due in part to this bug.
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