Magento’s enterprise edition has numerous back-end advantages, a more detailed permission system being the nicest in my opinion. The improvements on the default theme in the frontend are somewhat less discussed.

The most obvious improvements in the frontend default template are:

1. Cleaner template; not so busy as the bright ‘n blue standard template. Enterprise default is light, white / greyish and has less pictures / icons.
2. The shopping cart link in the top right part of the screen has an action on click which slides down and shows the shopping cart contents.
3. A far better image zoom script. Not the zoom in slider that is present in the default community template, but a smarter zoom script that is more natural to the way you browse an image. Clicking on a product image yields a zoom function, no slider bars. After you click the product’s image, the presentation is like the “Magic Zoom” commercial extension…
4. The bundled products page is presented a lot better, also with some eye-candy. All the option choices are hidden behind the main product info, only when a customer is interested the configuring of the product starts.

Overall, the Magento Enterprise Edition frontend template provides an even better / more professional starting point.