Windows 7 first thoughts & the upgrade process from Vista

I got my copy of Win 7 Home Premium for my wife’s laptop and installed it last night and already installed the RC on an old Sempron 3000 w/1Gb RAM & ATI 256Mb Radeon card.

Collection of thoughts on the two installs:

1- The Sempron box: old PC doing not too much but gathering dust at this point, so I wiped the HD clean of XP and installed the release candidate version (RC) about a month ago.  Smooth install, and surprizingly fast operations for a “new” OS on an old clunker.  Have not had the chance to mess with it since then but was impressed nonetheless.  The ATI card made it so the UI with full-blown animations was working smoothly.

2- The HP Latptop: it’s a Core2Duo with 4GB RAM and 800Mhz FSB, decent hardware running Vista 64-bit and was slower than molasses due to Vista.  So did the upgrade thing as I decided to be lazy about it (I usually install an OS from scratch but my wife wanted it back asap so what the heck!).  The upgrade process went without a hitch but be advised it took hours.  Just be patient.  The laptop under Win7 runs smoothly and I have to say significantly faster without changing a damn thing to the apps & hardware.

Overall, Win7 is a really cool OS at first and will post notes as times flies by on how this is going.

Anybody else enjoying 7 and ditching Vista faster than the speed of light?