Save for web very slow

I have a new MBP Retina, clean install of the OS and Creative Cloud. Just setting up Photoshop, and Save For Web is extremely slow. It opens normally, but I get the spinning color cursor for 15-20 seconds and only after that does the image display in the preview window. Then for every checkbox I select, the color cursor comes back and all is delayed for another 15 seconds. The file is a square photo from an iPhone 5s, two layers, nothing else going on, 34mb.
I do have Suitcase Fusion 6 installed. Based on their instructions, I removed all fonts from the HD/library/fonts, and have certain web faces activated through Suitcase. (Arial, Courier, Georgia, Times, Trebuchet, Verdana).
On a new, empty file, all works as expected with no delays.
I had this same set up on this same Mac before I wiped the hd, and never had this problem.
Any thoughts...reset a preference or...?
Thank you.

I just noticed the above unresponsiveness happens with the 4.7mb exported PNG, so it's not related to the file size.

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My problem is that under certain circumstances the 'save as web' function can take upto 3 minutes before the diaglog box appears. I've had this for some time but only in the last couple of days did I notice something that might be relevant:
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1. Open 3 large TIFF files @ 120mb approx (mine are 3 processed RAW files from Capture One / 4200x5600@300dpi)
2. Create a new adjustment layer for each image
3. Resize each image to 72dpi @ 800x600
4. Run a SmartSharpen & flatten layers for each image
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6. 'Save as web' dialog appears in expected time
7. Close this document (tab)
8. Go to the next image (tab) and do 'save as web'
9. Dialog box can take anything from 20secs to 3mins to appear.
10. Close this document (tab)
11. Go to the last image (tab) and do 'save as web'
12. Dialog box can take anything from 20secs to 3mins to appear.
As I can easily go through this process for 50-60 images you can imagine that it can waste over an hour of my time waiting for Photoshop to get it's act together. I assume it's something todo with memory allocation, or that it's processing previews for all three tabs on the first 'save as web', but in any respect it's very annoying. There seems nothing obviously wrong resource-wise at the time of doing these.
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Photoshop CS5
Suitcase Fusion 3
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After a few days of research , I found that Suitcase was conflicting with Photoshop. Here's how you fix the problem (or at least here's what I did with my situation):
Open Suitcase
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>My hatred of laptops has NOTHING to do with Photoshop
And my commentary had nothing to do with your hatred. The OP is all about Photoshop usage on laptops, and I am quite experienced using PS on laptops. When I said
>Note that older laptops like Ramón mentioned would not run PS...
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However for the last six months or so I have frequently been using a C2D Macbook Pro as a desktop replacement and I can report unequivocally that it works, especially power-wise, which is what the OP was about. Also based on that experience and also unequivocally I consider using MBPs or the similarly limited iMacs for production graphics work inadvisable.
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