I've been playing with an XO for a couple of days, and my initial reaction is much like ME's.

The touchpad response is clunky -- I can't make a continuous circle without it getting messed up by something. It's as if the CPU gets interrupted and drops some of the input.

I have a few dead or stuck pixels.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that mine came with build 656 installed. It took some fiddling to get WPA working, especially since I couldn't cut-and-paste between the terminal and the network manager without resorting to a USB mouse's middle-click paste.

I've had a few applications be unresponsive at times, and crashed the browser once.

Video looks very glitchy, that's probably due to the slow CPU.

Getting applications isn't hard though. Almost right off the main browser screen you can find some activities, and these install directly by just clicking the hyperlink. And if you install XO-get, that gives you a simple package viewer/installer outside the browser.

I think part of the agony for G1G1 is that the XO was meant to be used in a school setting, with other XOs, a school server, and with some teacher guidance. Outside of that setting, you have to resort to the wiki to learn about using it and updating it and installing new activities. That isn't a smooth consumer experience because there isn't a portal exlusively for G1G1. Plus without other XOs around you can't take advantage of the mesh collaboration, which is a major part of XO's appeal.

But as forgiving as I can be, the apparent clunkiness of the basic sugar activities worries me. That and the pad problems have me a bit disappointed.

Holding it in my hands, I'd say there's a lot more than just hype to this thing, but it doesn't quite feel ready for prime time either.

Oh that logo gave me a chuckle -- nice work!