I have not yet checked out Lush 101, but I've noticed it making a standing in the KVR rankings lately. I saw some bugginess being reported and wanted to give them some time to work that out before I evaluate...audio demos sound good though.
About CPU hit -- sometimes big performance gains come from optimizations after the plugin has been on the market for a while. u-He updated Diva and when they added multicore support, it did have a huge impact. They recently optimized Zebra farther as well. I think that ongoing committment to optimization is harder to achieve (or less likely to be achieved) in the hardware space, where a good portion of the profit is on hardware sales (thus more motivation to leave incremental power increases for the next generation of hardware gear).
I did feel the Ti2 desktop I had was extremely underpowered considering the cost. The other problem was with latency over USB, and just getting the thing to function reasonably in a DAW environment without nuking my workflow and requiring me to spend more time fidgeting with a single synth in order to make music. It was a nice enough sounding synth, but not really more so than some of my better softsynths.
Most of the cons I've described in these forums about the Virus would not apply to the Virus C at all; I've never even used one. My beef is mostly about the half-hearted commitment to total integration, the fact that it seems that folks who use the integration and VC successfully are rare, and the overall cost of the Virus line when compared against what's available in modern soft synths these days.
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