Well, I have to say that I did go and look at gOS Gadgets...and downloaded it...and installed it on my daughter's computer: P4 1.2Ghz or thereabouts, with 768Mb RAM and a 64Mb ATI video card. The following is not in any particular order and I've included pros and cons as I've gone along.

I was and am quite impressed. The desktop is very attractive as is the instantly installed toolbar at the bottom which emulates the Mac OSX toolbar.

The install was very simple and easy and includes many proprietary bits and pieces (e.g. video codecs). In this instance, as with distros like Linux Mint and Simply Mepis, when you complete an install like this for a friend, they're completely shocked that everything is instantly there: office suite, video editing suite, games etc.

My daughter loves installing and trying out the new widgets from Google Gadgets – many of which are educational. For instance, one shows the planets in the solar system and when you click on a planet, you're connected to a page on the NASA site which discusses that particular planet.
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