Optimising MacBook Pro (2009) for Adobe Design Premium.

Hello I have recently found that brushes in Adobe Photoshop (CS5 extended) have been lagging on my MacBook Pro and was wondering why this could be ?
I have dedicated more than enough internal memory to photoshop (over 70 %) so I know that cannot be the issue yet at this moment and time every time I make a stroke the input lags behind.
Coincidentally I have noticed many media players I have accessed online have been failing for some reason and wonder if I may have a bug ?
Everything else seems in full working order and nothing else seems effected so if there was anything I could do to optimize my computer for graphics programs I would be grateful for peoples input.

You're correct that it's not possible to tell Photoshop to use only part of a disk or volume (partition on a disk) for its scratch disk. Don't bother asking Adobe about it — it can't be done.
You're also correct in supposing that a fast external hard drive (or a partition on one) could be designated as Photoshop's scratch disk, possibly with beneficial results. But for the sake of speed, make it a 7200 RPM drive, and connect it to the computer via Thunderbolt or FireWire 800, not USB or FireWire 400. A 5400 RPM USB or FW 400 drive would be slower than your internal drive.
If you have 149GB of free space available on your internal drive, you don't need to delete anything from it to regain space unless it's a 1TB drive that you've installed yourself. a brody's comments above about insufficient free space and deleting data to free up more were based on a misunderstanding of the statistics you were quoting.
You may be able to improve Photoshop's performance a bit, without doing anything else, just by makiing sure it's the only application running when you use it and/or restarting your computer just before opening PS. This would be well worth a try.

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