You should only make modification that you are comfortable making (comfortable in terms of techinal saavy as well as comfortable in terms of risk tolerance). But the opinion of this stranger is yes, the benefit in performance is going to be very noticable. I've been actively following the overclocking thread since it was only a few pages long and have been running an overclocked device myself since that time. I have yet to hear any reports of anyone having any real negative consequences. Just make sure you run with the factory kernel for a while first, for the sake of comparison, so that you properly appreciate the improvements when you finally do make the leap

protector to guard against thumb prints

I got a skin for my unit and it did save my day when I drop the thing(not at great height ... about 1m).

so they are worth it, but ymmv:-)

I would also file down the usb connector(both the data cable and the charger cable) - they are too tight for my taste.

cheers

box it up, print out RMA form, and return the phone.

I also recieved my N900 today, bought on eBay for £250, It looks and feels very good, I just need to get used to its keyboard, as I moved from E75.

lol....
il wait a bit...
why whats your issue with the one??
I currently have a Nokia N97 Which i paid $600 for and im very disapointed and have just shipped it back to nokia because the screen randomly died yesterday

1) Screen protector
2) Overclock
3) Leaked PR 1.2
4) Profit

I would say take a picture of your Girlfriend / Wife's boobs and post them;

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42285&page=697

The Ultimate Boobs and Butts thread (also known as the PR1.2 Speculation thread.)

Welcome to the club, the N900 is an awesome hackable phone!

slaapliedje

the n900 multitasks fine before the overclock..overclocking makes it more responsive.

I would suggest to spend your time to be familiar with your new n900(with the stock firmware) for the first couple of weeks; so that you have some understanding how thing are(this will give you a baseline to compare) and also spend time in-between to read upon the overclocking thread, the wiki, the benchmark, plus time to setup your o/s for reflashing the n900 with stock image. This will reduce the stress level in case you have to flash your unit to recover from error.

cheers

update "maemo 5" to pr 1.1
download the important apps. i.e " 2g/3g" " healthcheck" " brightness app" and enable extra-testing repo.. .note : i dont really recommend to enable it.. but you will find some useful apps right there... and i warn you that it might brick your phone.. but i didnt happen to me... just avoid extra-devel repo if you dontknow what you're doing... 1 more thing... OVERCLOCKED it... and it will rock.... but again.... it will void the warranty + it will lessen the life of your phone... enjoy your new toy. =]

I wouldn't recommend to do any "fancy" stuff too soon, that includes overclocking and flashing to leaked 1.2 firmware.

Instead you should take your time to configure your phone, import/add your contacs, take a look at your browser and add bookmarks, setting up your widgets/shortcuts on the desktops.
After that, I'd take a look at the Application Manager and add Extras Testing, maybe even Extras-Devel to your catalogues. Right then install some applications I guess - there are some almost mandatory tools at least for me: Simple Brightness Applet to change display brightness on the fly or 2G/3G selector to quickly disable 3G when not needed. Download some themes (there are some really nice ones out there, take a look at the forums) and check for other wallpapers.

If the tablet runs fine for you - then I wouldn't see a reason to overclock other than pure curiosity. I for one overclocked to 800 MHz and while it IS faster, I am not sure if I *really* need this extra power.