Dashboard ... pretty but just too slow

So, I'm playing around with a new intel macbook and as part of settling into the machine started checking out dashboard widgets again.

I'd written off dashboard on my main Mac (dual 2Ghz PPC) because it's just too slow to start up, and too much of a RAM pig to be worth its weight. I thought that on the new much faster performing intel mac os, the situation might be different. So in fact I'm writing this blog post right from within Dashboard. However I'm afraid it'll be my first and last one -- because it's still just too slow to be usable. A real pity considering how beautiful it is, and the Google blogger widget is pretty cute, too (not that I'm biased).