OK, first the credentials. I am a professional writer and I pull down six figures from writing and nothing but writing. My main apps are Final Draft (boo), MS Word (boo), OmniOutliner (hooray), Novamind (hooray), Cicus Ponies Notebook (hooray), Textwrangler (hooray) and now Pages (double hooray).

Pages rocks. Since I got it I haven't launched MS Word once. What a fricken relief. I'm giving it four stars because it stilll has a ways to go but for 1.0 software it's pretty devastating. I miss having an outliner available but you can fake it up with the indent/numbering features and in any case OmniOutliner spanks hard and exports very nicely to Pages. The styles are incredibly intuitive and easy to use and all the layout tools are terrific.

Bugs that bug me: if you define a style that uses a symbol font (eg Dingbats) you can't read the name of the style. Turning off the template dialog at open makes it incredibly hard to make a new document based on a template. But it's all minor stuff. SO MUCH BETTER than Mellel for my purposes at least. And all the MS Office stuff I've opened has looked great.