In the spirit of Scotty and Timmy among many others, I decided to try out these tools. Keep in mind these are my opinions, so I will qualify this once here so I don't have to keep doing that below. Also keep in mind (even when visiting the guys I linked too) that most of their comparisons are not with Resharper 1.5.

I started out with Resharper 1.5 and was impressed, although I am ashamed to say that I didn't use all the neat key combinations to aid me in my writing. I liked some of the optimizations and some of the color coding. I didn't like how long it took to load Visual Studio. For $99, I was still considering it.