I bought a Fender Professional Strat in white a few weeks ago from PMT Birmingham.
The compound radius neck feels great to play for me. The PU'S are pretty close in sound to the popular Fat 50's. I quite like the middle and neck PU'S. Always find the bridge a tad thin for live playing but other than that it's good. They come with the lower tone pot wired to roll off the bridge and middle and the other tone does the neck PU.
The two point trem comes with traditional style saddles rather than the blocks and I find it's more or less the same as the 6 point trem. Palm muting is good.
Staggered height tuners another plus with a bone nut and roller style string tree. Pop in style trem arm is great and stays in even in the well designed case.
The treble bleed circuit on the volume stops loss of highs when rolling volume down. For me this is fine on the neck and middle PU'S but maybe not with the thin sounding bridge PU.
I have modified it to a 7 sound strat utilising the bridge neck and all three combinations .
The weight of the guitar is nice and seems lighter than a few strats I have.
Off the shelf this guitar is very good overall and sounds better with a set of 11s fitted. I quite like all the modern updates Fender have included on this model.
I tried the Elite Strat as well at the store and did not get along so well with that. For me PU'S are fuller less vintage sounding noiseless and did not like rubbery feel knobs and truss rod adjuster looks ugly.
I can get good Shad sounds from the new guitar and it replaces a Vintage 57 reissue and I feel it is overall as good as that.
HTH