[mikester]

Installed Windows 7 myself recently - I'm dual booting back to XP though. I installed the Win7 64bit and it does seem very snappy. I recently upgraded my system hardware prior to the OS upgrade and between the older AMD Sempron I was using vs the newer Core 2 Quad 9550 CPU with 4 GB of RAM I noticed very little difference in the user experience.

With the older AMD the CPU would clearly get bogged down with intensive things and the new Intel chip doesn't but my computer overall feels the same.

With windows 7 it does feel better, faster - what I wanted.

I hate the new UI.

Hate. I really am comfortable in the Windows Classic interface, it is simple and usable and nice. I hate the windows search (indexing) feature (I think you can turn that off). I've gotten the UI to look about how I want it but I had to really read about doing it.

I hate the UI. I hated the Vista UI. Maybe I'm backwards or boring; I use computers daily. They are my tools and I don't like this new tool fancy.