Slow photo precessing

My macbook takes, what seems like a long time processing digital photo. I am using Photoshop Elements 8, 2.53 duo core processor, 4 gb RAM, I am unable to find video card info - but it is the standard that came preloaded on the computer. The photos I am processing are 1080 pixels per inch and 80 mb in total size. Is my Ram or processor causing the slow processing speed? If it is my Ram am I able to upgrade it? Thanks for your time.

Activity Monitor might help you with this. When your Mac slows down, check Activity Monitor to see if the CPU is very busy, or the disk is very busy, or both. If the CPU is busy but the disk is not, it's a CPU issue and there's nothing you can do. If the CPU is not busy but the disk is, and if your system memory is both full and paging in frequently, that would mean you don't have enough RAM. For large files I don't think 4GB is enough.
You can upgrade RAM easily using the instructions in your manual. You can buy it many places less expensively than Apple; I like macsales.com, crucial.com, ramjet.com, etc.

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