"Overall, my early experience agrees with those reported by the commenters in this C-Net post and Pogue’s NYT review. Of particular note, however, is this from Pogue’s piece about how both Apple and MS have learned to trim, scale down, and refocus on function over eye candy...
"Now, where do you think Apple and MS might have learned this salubrious lesson, my fellow geek-watchers? Could it have been largely from watching Linux take off in Netbooks and cheap PCs?"