I am no expert but here goes:
Office - There is a native AbiWord port for Word... Open Office will run but in a debian chroot and it runs very slow.. not a very good option for someone not familiar with computers. Office products in native Hildon are lacking something fierce.

GPS - Diablo (apparantly) got a little better but I still think it gets an initial lock pretty slowly. The biggest problem with GPS is the turn by turn directions for maemo I guess need to be done while Online; and the built in software is an extra $130 for the good stuff.

You need an adapter to get USB keyboards/mice etc to work right.. won't work out of box without the adapter (look in these forums for USB Host mode)


hope that helps...