Preview Bakes while rendering.
For now you can't see the Bake until it's finished, I don't understand why you can't see the rendering process, since Cycles even allows you to preview a render in real time. At least it should be possible to see how the render is built, tile by tile.
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actually - about baking, it would be smart to have an option to a Background Bake option, so the whole scene is automatically uv-mapped and render baked....