So slow. D80 raw files.

Why does my MBP seem incapable of dealing with photos?
I have a Nikon D80, I went to a gig last night and decided to shoot in RAW (.NEF) mode, which produces files about 9MB each.
When I try and open them with preview it takes ages.
Ages.
I have the GeForce 8600M GT, a fast processor and a helluva lot of ram.
If I open three photos at once, moving from one photo to the next never takes less than five seconds, and at most about seven seconds.
This is absurd, I bought this system to do things like this, surely it should be able to handle it?
The only possible reason I can think of as to why it's so slow is that my harddrive is nearly full, but I don't know to what extent (if any) that affects things.
I only have the 160gb of which 5gb is free.
Is the problem simply I need more space on it?
Edit: Oh, and when testing, I had every other application closed.
Nothing else was running except Preview.

Your problem is your HD is nearly full. Mac OSX needs a MINIMUM of 10GB of space in order to accommodate applications and system files to write temporary files into. If not, then it utilizes the system RAM to make up for it...which leads to your system running slowly. Free up as much space as you can, and you will see much improvement.

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