My Pi arrived yesterday, and I pushed both the Debian build and the Openelec build to SD cards.

X on Debian is quite sluggish at the minute and definately in need of development and optimisation. The raspberry pi browser is midori which was a nice reminder of when I used it on the N8x0.

On the other hand OpenElec is excellent. The interface looks great at 1080p and is fast. Pulling video and lists from my pogoplug media server (runs debian) was really quick and it played any of the media formats I could chuck at it without any problem. There is a slight slowdown if the display and lists are overlaid over the video, but that was largely down to my unfamiliarity with the XBMC interface.

I was thinking that it would be quite cool to try and put Mer and or possibly Cordia to it.

Main problem I have now is deciding whether to press the single Pi I have into service as a media player, or to continue to hack and play with it..