I loathed Vista, so I'm kinda gun-shy about Windoze 7. Generally Micro$oft comes out with a stable OS every 3 releases. I hear Windoze 7 is a processor hog and needs loads of RAM.

Yeah I'm in the same boat as Shingen. I've got a dual boot setup here, 32 bit XP and 64 bit Vista. Nothing but issues with Vista, I never use it anymore. I figured I should give MS another year to work out all the kinks with 7 before I install it over my vista partition. Then again, what do I have to lose? It can't be worse than Vista.

Tell me D1, how would you compare/contrast it to Vista? Also, when you hit control/alt/delete, how many processes does it show you've got running in the background? And are there any more "run as administrator" problems with 7?

This was my performance at idle:

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But I thought Firefox was using a lot of mem 😮

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Shant - I'm doing all my music work in Windows 7, it's flawless. I haven't had a single problem with it yet. Best upgrade I ever made. If you're running Windows 7 in 64-bit with 6-8 GB of RAM and a quad-core processor, you have a beast of a machine.

Having said that, I think Win 7 would be just as smooth running on a lot less. It's a great piece of software.

This being said, I also thought that post Service Pack Vista was pretty solid, especially if you tweak a bunch of the settings and turn off stuff like Superfetch and Readyboost and System Restore (risky, but not if you backup every week like I do...)

Finally, the annoying popups and User Account Control issues can all be switched off very easily.

Basically, Windows 7 LOOKS like Vista but FEELS like XP, which is a great combo.

I got Windows 7 few weeks ago, installed it on my desktop pc and I'm impressed ! So far I had XP but I never quite loved XP cause of the way the system would "slow down" if you didn't maintain it on a steady basis. My brother has Vista on his laptop and I gotta say, my opinion ... it sucks. So in a few short words, I like XP, I hate Vista and I love 7. It's so smooth and easy to use and it's stable, I haven't had a single issue with it since I got it and I'm the kind of guy that "rapes" his pc every day, I don't just check my e-mails and chat on messenger.

I have enjoyed it as well, my only complaint and it's probably with Firefox really is that you can tell from my earlier screenshots that FF3.5 was sucking up a lot of memory running Win7 64bit. Outside of that system runs very smoothly, haven't tried many of the older space games on it yet but will eventually. I was actually thinking about starting a Win7 space game compatibility list for folks to leave their feedback on how they got games running in Win7.

That's a great idea, something that will come in handy for everyone making the jump to win7.