Of course in development beware the dread update...

Widescreen monitor so I put the panel including startup etc. on the left side adjust the applet sizes looks much like Unity launcher except I get one more horizontal text line with no top panel.

I choose panel background transparent so the applets look like they are floating above the background, an Australian beach scene with my wife in a bathing suit. Nice appearance.

Very quick snappy response I notice improvement compared to compiz/unity. This is a 32 bit one cpu 3 gHz ATI video where unity/compiz do take visible time compared to say 12.04.1.

Yes I also do run unity/compiz looking for bugs, this is a development forum, but run Lubuntu for general use on that pc.