I actually did the same after the Macbook pro presentation. Got Elementary OS on my desktop to try it. Works fine so far, better UI/UX than Ubuntu for sure.

But I have some problems with the Nvidia support. https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/8952/artifa... Also v-sync doesn't really work, I get lots of tearing.

The terminal is nice and the window manager is good as well. ( elementarty-tweaks should be in there by default )