Tool Palette Submenus Slow to Display

I click and hold on a tool in Photoshop CS 6 on the Mac and it takes 2-3 seconds for the submenu to display. All my mouse settings are towards the fast end. Illustrator CS6 displays them much quicker and previous versions of PS weren't this slow to display the submenus. Can I speed up the submenu (alternative tool) display?

They should not be that slow.
Are they are faster if you right click on the toolbox tool icons instead of left click?
What version of os x are you using?
Have you applied all the latest updates for photoshop cs6 by going to Help>Updates from within photoshop cs6?

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