: What should I upgrade so Photoshop will run faster? So I just bought a new notebook and I'm wondering why Photoshop runs so slow on it. On easy, small files it's fast but on layouts that

@Gail6891361

The SSD is indeed the only thing that could help this 20 year old mess run a little better. Otherwise, any increase in hardware power only translates to small improvements in PS.

There are settings you can customise to get it to work better and you should find articles on optimising the cache levels or how much ram to allocate.

One tip you won't find, is turning off the Rulers when you don't need them: twitter.com/WeAreHyperion/status/673298762975084544

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@Sent7350415

An SSD is more beneficial than your typical hard drive and its an upgrade I seem to always do when dealing with a production machine. Your other specs seem ok, typically a min of 8GB is recommened, which you have so I would suggest looking at your Performance settings in Photoshop. You can get to the performace area by going to Preferences -> Performance. I am on a Mac but you should still be able to modify the amount of RAM allocated for Photoshop. I wouldn't advise setting it to 100% or you may get a BSOD:

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