Arduino - first impressions

Open source at its best (both in hardware and software)!

Pros (+):

• Nice, compact design
• Usb interface
• Broad source code from arduino.cc and other sites/blogs
• Ready-made IDE/usb drivers
• Linux/Mac/Windows portable (both IDE and PC-to-Arduino dev)
• Easy PC-to-Arduino dev via the Processing Language
• Very cheap!
• Lots of shields available!
  

Cons(-):

• Linux driver installation requires some more steps
• Addictive
• Must buy more shields (who wants to blink leds all day long?)!
  

I dual boot on my Eee PC 1000h (Windows Xp/Ubuntu 9.10b):there is a remarkable difference from the IDE to the sketch loading on the Atmel.