Finally got my hands on a PS3

No.. not at the store demo kiosk.  A friend (Bob) who got lucky last week while at Best Buy gave it to me!!  The graphics are too good.  Played Ridge Racer 7 and the response is stunning!!  You got to experience it to believe.

The setup is simple, though I had hard time working with the on-screen keyboard using controller (SIXAXIS what they call it).  Wireless setup, patch updates were straight forward.  There are no startup delays or BD loading issues,  The system boots in about 8 secs and the OS recognizes BD disk instantaneously and loads the movie or game in no time.

Only issue I have is with the SIXAXIS controller.  Had freeze issues, and unresponsive dialog when quitting a game or trying to shutdown console/system.  Seems to be a software issue rather than the controller or the Bluetooth interface.  Hoping that Sony release a patch soon.