Actually this is what he said:
To me it sounds like he works for a university in the advertising department - you do know that universities do marketing? He never said he was a student only that he does 'advertising in university'.
Going back to what I said, it won't matter how much you chuck at Adobe you're going to always have lacklustre performance - Adobe have you by the balls and you have no where to run other than to accept what you're given. Btw, CYMK isn't something that is universally required in all facets of advertising.
I read it differently, but if he was going into advertising, thorough knowledge of photoshop would be important. I agree Adobe has many of us by the balls, but you can get respectable performance out of it, if it's set up well. Adobe products in general shuffle around quite a lot of data. If you have a lot of ram or fast scratch disks, most of their functions have been reasonably fast for many years. Things that bog them down are when they're having to use laptop drives as scratch disks and interference from programs like spotlight which indexes their hidden files. They really are about how you set them up.