Photoshop CS5 slow to save .psd

Hello!
Im running a 6.2. Macbook Pro with 2.4GHz i5 and 8gb of RAM.
The problem is, that whenever I save a .psd file it takes awfully long time for the "Writing photoshop format"-bar to progress. For example an image from my dslr with only few layers (photoshop shows the document size to be under 700mb) it can take almost a minute.
This is pretty frustrating when saving a file between steps of editing -  it really disturbs my workflow. The funny thing is, that it doesnt seem to have any meaning whether I have the file on a external drive or the laptops drive. So I dont think it's the drive's fault, I could always be mistaken.
I dont experience these problems when using older Imac's at our school running CS5 - with them the save-command is always instant. I also never remember waiting so long for saving to happen with previous Photoshop versions.
What gives? How should I configure this to be bearable or is this how it actually works?
Already tried:
- Re-Installing CS5 (also using the CS5 CleanUp utility)
- Defragmenting my laptops harddrive (restoring the os from time-machine)
- Setting the option for "Maximize .psd and .psb file compatibility" to "never"
- Trying out different memory usage settings (just randomly testing different values - doesnt seem to make a difference)
- Trying out different history & Cache settings
- Disabling GPU usage
- Trying different Scratch disks (external with FW800 and also making a partition on my Macbook HD (I know it isnt supposed to help if its on the same physical drive))
- All updates are installed (CS5 & OSX)
Is something wrong or is a i5 macbook pro with 8gb of memory slower to do this than a core2duo Imac from 2008 with 4gb of memory. Or Am I just looking at the wrong things.

There is probably nothing wrong with your install or your computer.
large layered photoshop files (afaik) (PSD and PSB) use heavy lossless compression that is not very fast and single-threaded... almost all of my files save at a relatively slow rate of 8MB/s (on a fully stuffed mac pro) due to the "compression). try flattening your files... they should write then at almost full HD speed. alternatively, as long as your files are below 2/4GB, save them as layered TIFF files with little/no compression... much faster than PSD. (but also check your system/PS memory usage... if you encounter heavy system swap and PS swap at the same time, your computer will also become very slow).

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