New laptop very slow with LR/PS

Do what I suggested above then - diagnostics

tim wrote in post #17476600
Before you do the fresh install Google to see if you can disable the services taking CPU. You might find it's exactly the same otherwise, especially with a new laptop.

I did all of that, you can disable them but when you reboot they are back and running. I think I have messed around with it enough to optimize it, and I'm in no real hurry to do it. My main machine is a desktop but when I am at the studio or travelling I like to be able to do some editing.

Did you stop the services, set them to manual, or disable them? Disable is probably the best choice. If they're started anyway it'll be some kind of service chain, another service starting them up, see if you can work out what's doing it and uninstall/stop.

Hi Sorry to ask on Scooters thread.

I may have the same problem as what Scooter is experiencing though my laptop is using an 2nd gen i7 and not brand new.

Here is the laptop's specifications:

Laptop: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
Processor: 2.2GHz i7 (i think 2nd gen.)
Memory: 16 gig 1600 MHz
Graphics: HD 3000
Hardisk: 240gigs SSD Kingston hyperX

Here is what i notice when I am using photoshop CS6:

When I am using the brush tool and applied it on my image it will take some time before you can see the results. And most of the time it hangs that I need to get out from the brush tool and go to any other tools, like the move tool, so that it will get out from the hang state and click again the brush tool.

I am happy to do again a fresh installation of the O.S. but before going to that, as a last resort, is there any other things/tweaks that I need to do or check?

Thanks,
Christian

Keema wrote in post #17510257
Hi Sorry to ask on Scooters thread.

I may have the same problem as what Scooter is experiencing though my laptop is using an 2nd gen i7 and not brand new.

Here is the laptop's specifications:

Laptop: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
Processor: 2.2GHz i7 (i think 2nd gen.)
Memory: 16 gig 1600 MHz
Graphics: HD 3000
Hardisk: 240gigs SSD Kingston hyperX

Here is what i notice when I am using photoshop CS6:

When I am using the brush tool and applied it on my image it will take some time before you can see the results. And most of the time it hangs that I need to get out from the brush tool and go to any other tools, like the move tool, so that it will get out from the hang state and click again the brush tool.

I am happy to do again a fresh installation of the O.S. but before going to that, as a last resort, is there any other things/tweaks that I need to do or check?

Thanks,
Christian

This is pretty normal with a 2.2 GHz i7 processor. CS6 works well for most things except for calculation intensive operations like brush tools and content aware healing. See my earlier post (#11).

You could get away with a less powerful machine with CS5.

Adobe seems to have improved some of the speed issues, particularly with LR5, with some of the updates so also make sure you are running the latest version.

Before you forget, you should check what Power Management settings you are running on your laptop!
Some laptops try to save energy in certain power management settings.
(usually called Power Saving).

If you want to be able to run everything at 100%, you should check "High Performance".

here is a short guide to edit these settings.

http://www.howtogeek.c​om …-7-manage-power-settings/

Follow the instruction I posted on the first page (I think it was this thread) that will help diagnose the problem. An i7 with SSD, even a laptop, should be ok.

tim wrote in post #17510992
Follow the instruction I posted on the first page (I think it was this thread) that will help diagnose the problem. An i7 with SSD, even a laptop, should be ok.

A 2.2 GHz one really isn't ok for these operations Tim, not for CS6 anyway. You need closer to a 4 GHz i7 processor before brush lag becomes unnoticeable, especially for larger files. CS6 isn't unusable with a 2.2 GHz processor, it's just that lag is normal (brush an area with content aware spot healing brush and sometimes the result won't appear for 1 or more seconds).

I can say that with an i7 4770K slightly o/c'd to about 4.2 GHz (32 GB RAM ... not that it matters much) that I've never seen any brush lag, but on a i7 930 slightly o/c'd to 3.2 GHz (12 GB RAM) brush lag was significant for certain files. Both use SSDs, both tweaked and optimized the same way for LR and Photoshop. The i7 930 machine could easily handle LR4 and CS5 with zero lag.

Clock speed is only somewhat relevant to computer system performance. At works it should be around half the speed/double the lag of a 4GHz processor.

tim wrote in post #17510992
Follow the instruction I posted on the first page (I think it was this thread) that will help diagnose the problem. An i7 with SSD, even a laptop, should be ok.

@Tim,

I saw the link that you have posted. But, I think it's for windows type o.s.

How about for mac (osx) o.s.?

Thanks,
Christian

tim wrote in post #17511365
Clock speed is only somewhat relevant to computer system performance. At works it should be around half the speed/double the lag of a 4GHz processor.

Sorry Tim, I know what you are saying but CPU type/speed makes a big difference with CS6. I've tried it on 4 different computers, 1 being a Mac and it proves out. RAM makes much less of a difference once you have at least 8 GB.

Keema wrote in post #17511378
@Tim,

I saw the link that you have posted. But, I think it's for windows type o.s.

How about for mac (osx) o.s.?

No idea, I don't know mac's sorry.