not just on startup (you can now snapshot and give it more ram), but
in processing forms, saving instances, etc. typing feels like it's
going at 300 baud. you can't capture multimedia or gps. you can view
multimedia but it's takes seconds. doing anything with hardware
buttons requires knowledge of magical keystrokes. oh, and it eats cpu
and ram (and thus battery life). actually, it kinda reminds me of
eclipse
i've got a 2.8ghz core 2 duo with 8gb of ram and a ssd hard disk and i
think it's miserable. i can't imagine it'd be fun on anything less
powerful. but you don't have to take my word for it. try it or check
out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554099/slow-android-emulator
for hints on how to make it go faster.