What I would like to see is lower time to get started currently, it takes several hours just to download all the blocks, which amount to few megabytes of data.
Or does it take so long because my PC has to verify all the blocks?
You've made me think of another question to ask: will all new instances of BitCoin clients always have to download all existing blocks? Won't that eventually mean that as the number of blocks increases, the time taken to download the blocks and the space to store it will be enormous.
I'm presuming I've got this wrong, as the developpers are rather cleverer than me, but can someone explain the flaw in my thinking?