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A just did a little test of the content aware fill in Photoshop CS5 and compared it to CS4

Photoshop CS5 Preview: Content Aware Fil

I think that's about what I expected, but it's good to see it in action with something more realistic than the demos.

I don't use spot heal at all, but if you use the healing brush and carefully pick the source you can get some very nice results - things with gradual tone or color variations that can be tricky to match up with the clone tool. My guess is that the content aware fill will be similar - if you're willing to spend a bit of time to work on smaller pieces (i.e. don't just try and replace the whole thing at once) you'll have a good new tool. But it won't be a push-button one-step way to remove a person, sign or other large object from detailed backgrounds. 

Yeah, it needs to be a wide open area.  When I am trying to clean up skin, I find it tries to draw information from too far away, or too dark a place.  Patch works much better because I can pick where I want it to use.

I always used healing brush instead of spot healing because I prefer to choose a sample manually.
I tried content aware filter in CS5 and surprisingly sometimes it works perfect, and sometimes it works good enough. I tried it on many different cases. I removed 2 huge objects from the image, and then just needed to retouch some minor details. Anyway, it saves A LOT of time.
It works better on busy surfaces comparing to flat surfaces (like sky). With flat surfaces it tends to leave a patch with just slightly different shade where the removed objects was. But that can also be corrected pretty easy.

Content Aware Fill is a great tool!! Look at these examples if you don't believe me...

More Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek Awesomeness

haha yeah.. great.

Adobe really was asking for that!!