Photoshop CS2 performance...

A friend of mine who is a optemetric technician (he takes pictures of eyeballs) recently switched from a Thinkpad to a MacBook Pro. He has 2.33Ghz with 512MB RAM. I was helping him setup Photoshop CS2 and we ran into some issues, namely it is slower on the MBP than on the 3 year old Thinkpad. What he does is take up to 40 pictures of a persons eye and then runs it through a batch process (with 15 to 20 actions: crop & rotate, brightness/contrast, etc...) to enhance the picture. Under his Thinkpad CS2 was churning through a picture every 6-8 seconds each, under the MBP it was taking 10-15 seconds each. The files are jpgs, RGB, 3072 x 2304 pixels. Is there anything we can do to increase performance? Would more RAM help (I suggested 1G at least)? Is he stuck with this because of Rosetta and he'll just have to buy CS3 when it comes out? Are there any other settings that we could try that might increase performance?
On a side note, he uses the bridge to select files and the bridge crashes after starting the batch process. The batch still carries through no problem but it is annoying that it crashes every time.
Thanks
Chris

Your friend is running into two issues that you've already mentioned…
1) A massive lack of RAM, I actually recommend 2GB RAM for all Intel systems.
2) Rosetta
With these two coupled together it's struggling to keep up. More RAM will help. Why doesn't your friend try the CS3 beta?
As for Bridge crashing, this is not the first time I've heard of this so he/she might want to avoid this for the time being.
One option they may not have considered is to use CS2 under Windows (Boot Camp and not Parallels) until CS3 is available. Performance is extremely good.

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