The wait is killing me. Every now and again I’ll decide to cancel my order and get a black one instead, but then I change my mind again and decide to stick it out.
XNA is Microsoft’s game development system, it’s freely downloadable and integrates with VS 2008. It’s big thing at the moment is XBOX 360 community games (released as part of the new xbox experience).
You can use VS 2008 to do most of the stuff in Silverlight, and then there is Microsoft Expression studio (a bit like VS but for designers).
I’m currently a Web Developer (back end stuff and the odd bit of front end functionality using JQuery, Flash, and Silverligt).
I also do some graphics work in my spare time (not that there much of that at the moment) using InkScape and Cinema 4D. Be interesting to see if there’ll run on the NC10