The professional edition ships with one more manual, the SuSE Technical Handbook. This is a great reference for newbies and slightly more advanced users. Linux generally lacks good documentation for newbies but the handbook is clear, concise and quite detailed. Newbies are always on the lookout for good books to learn from and it's great to see SuSE making an effort at addressing this need. Probably one of the best reasons to choose the professional version over the personal one is this handbook.
Lets now move on to the installation.
The familiar Yast2 GUI setup is here again with its 8 step installation process. Newbies should stick to the friendlier Yast2 GUI installation. The installation is easy with context help available. The defaults should work for most people. A really nifty feature is the ability to save the settings of the installation and re-use them when installing on another machine.