Why is my lightroom cursor freezing and jumping when using spot removal tool?

I have just swapped from PC to Mac and in the process upgraded from LR 3 to LR 4.  I have always had some minor issues with the spot removal tool occassionally jamming up or not working smoothly and taking a long time in LR3 on PC, but so far using the tool in LR 4 on Mac has been painful.  It is like it is slow to load, and then the cursor/spot removal circle just dissapears or freezes??? 
This is driving me mental - I want to be able to fix minor blemishes etc quickly in LR instead of having to go to PS.
Can anyone give me any advice???
Thanks,
Melanie

What kind of mouse or graphics tablet are you using?  That sounds like a driver issue.  And what are the specs of your machine?  There was a graphics driver problem a while back which were causing brush/spot cursors to disappear.

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