I have been playing with this for a couple of days now, and on the whole I'm thrilled. The installation procedure was seamless, all the hardware was correctly recognized. A huge improvement over the beta, in a very short time. There are still some minor problems:
The splash screen is noisy, reverts to a clean boot selection screen,
then alternates between noisy splash, to a monochrome stairstep
until the log-in screen comes up. After this everything is normal.
The Yast software manager initially wants to load from CD#1
but after acknowledging the errors, works normally.
The system clock resets to UTC despite local time selection.
Tried hwclock -- systonhc, which appears to work on the surface, but on checking the CMOS, I find the clock reset to UTC none the less. During installation the software questioned my choice of local time, as it found no Windows installation on the disk. That's because I use removable hard drives instead of dual booting. This does present me with a problem of forever changing the BIOS. Not a good idea due to the write limitations of the CMOS. If anyone has any ideas on this, that would be great.
All in all, it's a keeper. I'll be sure to try and find converts for it.