Amen. BTW, some folks I worked with said that, if you disable McAfee virus scan before starting Eclipse, it comes up much faster. I think you can just disable "on access scan". Don't know how this applies to other antivirus pacakges though.
There’s nothing wrong with Java itself. I’ve just never understood why the people that make Java based IDEs don’t seem to notice what pigs they are. Netbeans, at least a year or two ago when I tried it out, was completely unusable on a very capable machine.