Personally, my TP is all business and just like on my PC's I make performance my main concern. I diabled my TF3d and later the dialer skin, and even later cooked my own rom without TF3D installed at all, just to get more performance out of my device. The regular WinMo today screen is good for me, with weatherpanel installed of course.
Only 23% memory used at boot. Heck ya!