The lure of GNOME 3

Been using GNOME 3 almost exclusively for the last month or so (on Usul).
It is getting almost addictive, I look at my other lappies running Scientific Linux with plain GNOME 2 and they look so antique, so old...
Things are not totally kosher with GNOME 3, not even on Usul with 8 GB RAM, but, damn, GNOME 2 looks like CDE.