Very true. A lot of 2010 perf hit is because of WPF. Real hardware and a good video card is required. I never dreamed that a decent video card would be required for a text editor but it is.
Not that I'm bitter, stuck in VS2008 all day on a circa 2003 machine, stingy ass employers.
They can afford to pay 100k+ for engineers, but not to give them decent machines..