Tips to make Photoshop CS5 a lot faster?

I have been having a lot of issues with my PS CS5, it is behaving very slowly and I really have no idea why, I always thought that CS5 would be running a lot faster (because of 64bit) than CS4...CS4 was much slower than CS3 which I had really no problem with. So with photoshop CS5 even really basic operations are extremely slow, loike moving inside a document, selecting brushes, lapse of time for the brushes to appear...very basic stuff and that happens on double layer files (1400x900), so on very small files
At first I thought it was because it wasn't detecting my video card (which I found was because of my secondary 24" 1920x1200 monitor).
Here is my hardware:
Macbook pro 3,1
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo 4mb l2 cache
2GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM (2x1GB)
120GB 5400rpm HDD (set up as 2nd Scratch disk)
WD 1 TB 7200RPM (2 partitions) FireWire800 hard drive (1 partition as 1st scratch disk)
1248mb Memory usage for PS
History states:100
Cache Level:4
Cache Tile size: 128k
Also When designing the only other applications that are open are iTunes (to listen to music, an absolute must when designing! ) and Mail.
So my problem is I bought CS5 and I swear in front of my computer because it is so slow! I understand my computer isn't the most recent one but the operation I ask it t do aren't all that bad...moving a document shouldn't make PS lag and take forever...
By the way I do use some of the most recent PS CS5 features so I can't go back to CS3 even if it worked much better...
What can I do? Please help me!
P.S: Thank you Chris for your answer in my other discussion, it did answer my question!

Not for nothing, but when I hear people complaining about how slow the current Photoshop is on recent hardware, I have to laugh...my fist big iron machine was a Daystar Genesis which had 4 processors. I put a whopping 512MB of ram in the machine that cost $17,000 (yes, 17K) but that was mitigated by putting in a second 512MB for only $7,500 (the price had dropped...
In the old days, Photoshop performance was a matter of hours/days not minutes/seconds...when you worked on a big file in Photoshop 2.5, you did a lot of work to optimize Photoshop and minimize the processor clicks lost to other processors. Launch Activity Monitor and see how many processes are running under OS X. A ton...many unneeded and unwanted for running Photoshop. Are you running ONLY Photoshop? Or do you have ram/processor hogs like iTunes or Safari running at the same time? How many images do you open and work with at a single time? Open 2 images and Photoshop's ram debt doubles...open up 4 images and it more than quadruples...
There are three basic bottlenecks in Photoshop and if you want to speed them up, you need to address each and every one. First and foremost is processor speed (and multi-processors up to a point where you get diminishing returns) but even with the fastest CPU's if you starve the processor of ram when you open a bigger image, you still slow down. The last one is pretty important if you are hitting your scratch disk and that's disk I/O...
So, the basics of speeding Photoshop are; fast processor, lots of ram and a separate fast drive for scratch disk...then make sure you are only running Photoshop and not a bunch of other crap in the background and open only as many images as you absolutely need. If your machine is bogging down the odds are one or more of the above needs to be addressed. It's possible that some 3rd party software (plug-ins or drivers like a tablet) is bringing down your overall performance...it's advisable to have everything on your system as up to date as possible (after leaving a week or two for "other people" to flush out the problems).
If you are in doubt about your ram (and 2 gigs is literally nothing these days) launch Activity Monitor and watch the free ram graphic. If you are routinely dropping below 100 MBs of free ram (not allocated by any other process) the odds are real good you are seeing slowdowns and SBODs because you are forcing the system to page data which slows things down a lot-particularly if your boot drive is also your Photoshop scratch drive because you have two things competing for the same drive. It's optimal to have a fast second drive just for Photoshop scratch disks.
If you have less that all the ram your computer can hold, that's prolly the cheapest and most cost efficient place to spend money to speed Photoshop short of getting an all new system, ram and tons of fast hard drives...

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