Warning notice on bitcoin.org

[JompinDox]

Many new users coming to bitcoin.org and proceeding to install the client
are quite upset when they find out the software needs hours / days to synchronize,
during which there is lots of hard disk thrashing and bandwidth eaten, and all
other tasks on their computer slow down to a crawl.

Really, is it too much to ask for a little informative notice on the download
page? Not everyone is a geek.

[pekv2]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96141.msg1059816#msg1059816

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

[Charlie Prime]

I agree.

I recently suffered through this.  I wish I would have been warned that I would need ten to fifteen hours before the software would become usable.

Running computers 24/7 in this heat is not an option.  It took me four consecutive nights to synchronize with the network.

[WikileaksDude]

Well, you can always use hybrid wallets like blockchain.info/wallet .

You don't need to leech the entire blockchain.