following this post: http://empeg.comms.net/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=empeg_general&Number=43645&page=&view=&sb=&o=

I tried some searches with 2 empegs (2b7)
empeg1: Riocar 30 gigs, 2gigs used
search is 'reasonable' like 1.03.
empeg2: mk2 36gigs(2x18) 30 gigs used (8000 unique songs, 10000 with linked playlists & songs)
search too slow:
3 to 5 seconds between each mode keypress (to toggle between pin, tittle, artist, ...), and also for each search keypress (letters like 'MNO'), and sometimes some keypresses are not buffered when typed in advance.

This make the search very annoying...
I tried the same before with 1.3 with the same number of songs, but it was faster.

Still the same with b11 (maybe a little bit faster).

Yeah, search speed sucks in the 2.0x betas. I would love to hear an explanation of why it used to be fast and is now slow.