What is the fastest Android SDK setup?

What is the best platform and setup for running Android SDK? It is so slow that I cannot stay focused on it.

If I had any hardware resources at my disposal and cost wasn'开发者_JAVA百科t an issue, what should I do?

Also, is there some sort of cloud SDK host that can provide a faster experience. (Security isn't a concern. Just need to debug web sites.)

I have really bad experiences with running on Mac software so, aside from special cases, I would avoid mac hardware (yes I know they are seperate things, but still).

In my experience a VMWare virutal unbuntu in OSX runs Eclipse/javaSDK faster then just directly in OSX, on the same machine.

I had a very similar problem, my development machine is old and slow and Eclipse was killing it. I recently switched to IntelliJ Idea and it is much faster. I suggest at least giving it a shot. It has really good support built in for the Android SDK including logcat.