I have SW 2009 SP5 on an HP PDX18T, Centrino 2 (4 CPU's), 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM, 64 Bit Win 7, Nvidia card, yada yada...
Solidworks will sit there with the little circle spinning (Computer thinking) with little to no CPU usage and only say 2 gigs or so of RAM used up every time I do things like...