[mcrossy]

1) There isn't much I can do about that most likely. The new method of drawing is much slower than the old method, but due to the complexity of blending the bitmaps (and having to use a backbuffer to do it), I doubt it can be made much faster.

Mike, I've got an idea to make the displaying a bit faster, specially for older tablets, don't know if it's practicable.
Let suppose you are in Performance mode, while you are reading a page: in the meanwhile the processor is supposed to be inactive. In this period MSP could render the "next page in list" in background, so, when the user recalls the next page, it should be ready to display without having to render it from scratch. What do you think about?