Photoshop CS6-many problems. Slow.

Question

I'm hoping someone at Adobe can address the numberous bugs and general slowness in Photoshop CS6.
Before installing (MacBok Pro 2010 Intel i7, 8GB Ram) I whiped my drive and installed OS Lion. So CS6 went on clean.
What I'm finding:
1. General slugishness all around.
Layered PSD files I was using just fine in CS5 are now extremely slow. An examle is a small (20mb) web design file. So it has many layers (maybe 200, not 2,000) mostly comprised of typographic elements—not many layered effects to speak of. Not many image layers, either. Layer folders are slow to move, folders can't be moved using the shift + arrow key consecutive times, making it difficult to move a range of folders xxx pixels to the left, for example.
Things that were pretty snappy before, are now slow. This is very similar to the problems I and many others saw with the initial relase of CS5—in the next version (12.0.1 I think?) Adobe fixed the issue.
2. Problems with type, example keybaord arrow keys stop working many times when toye is selected. Frustrating.
More of a general rant here, but insted of (at least in addition to) a lot of other 'features' like video in PS extended (why not use Premiere?), 3d, etc., it would be really smart for Adobe to make core elements work better: A big complaint among interactive desigers is that type renders so poorly compared to CSS html. Maybe this could be addressed, as photoshop is used for the design of most all websites.

Answer 1

Scorwolf wrote:
Think twice before putting all the load on customers' side
Some things need to be stated, I think.
1.   You're not dealing with some smooth talking marketing department here.  Chris Cox and the other engineers who help here are substantially the ones that arrange the 1s and 0s in the code itself.  They speak plainly, and while most folks who know them realize they get directly to the point, folks who don't realize the special level of communication we have here might think the Adobe folks are abrupt or evasive.  Let me assure you they're neither.  It is uncommon to have this level of access to engineers at a big corporation, and encouraging them to be here is one of the things Adobe does right.  Very right.
2.  Adobe's software uses and stresses your computer like no other software - not even the previous version of Adobe's software.  They have provided you with cutting-edge graphics technology in the latest release, and the state of the art is that your computer system is both extremely complex and the operating system and driver software on it does not all work perfectly (not even a Mac).  We see again and again, for example, that display drivers are hard put to work perfectly...  There are certain "golden" releases of drivers that work well - and others that just plain suck.
What you may not realize is that there are already multiple levels of fallback inside the Adobe software.  Some of them are automatic, and some you have to choose via preferences.  Adobe really can do no more to try to ensure their software works around the glitches on your particular system.
-Noel