Pages: more a layout program than a word processor?

There is much more buzz about the iLife suite, but let us not forget our new friend, the iWork suite. It surprised me that I had to dig to find a few reviews of Pages, Apple’s new word processing application. Luckily for us, Dan Pourhadi at Macteens has written up a very comprehensive review.

The biggest takeaway message seems to be that Pages is *not* a direct Microsoft Word competitor. Pourhadi thinks of the app more like a page layout program than a word processor, in fact. But for those who need to churn out newsletters, fliers, etc. in a user-friendly environment, Pages is going to fit the bill quite nicely.

Has anybody else had a chance to check out Pages?