It's much leaner and cleaner than Vista which, even at it's best, was slow and cumbersome and it makes XP seem positively geriatric. My ex-pc had been running XP with 2.5GB of RAM but it seemed so slow compared to the laptop with 1GB of RAM on Win7.
In any case, with the approach of March 2010, and the expiration of the evaluation I had to decide if I wanted to keep using my laptop and letting it revert to Vista, upgrade it to Win7 or start from scratch, as it were...
I bought a Win7 upgrade and whilst window shopping on eBay found a pc deal that seemed impossible to resist. For $240 and free shipping I bought an Acer AX1200; 2.3GHZ AMD Sempron, 3GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, dual layer DVD-RW, HDMI and it even came with keyboard, mouse and speakers. It was running Vista for less than 24 hours before I upgraded to Win7.
Fortunately, I keep nearly everything (hundreds of films, thousands of pieces of music, hundreds of thousands of photos, etc) on a bank of external hard drives (1.2TB worth) so it was simply a matter of reinstalling some essential software and then some. I've got a cracking new machine running a solid and thoroughly reliable operating system.
I'm feeling well and truly chuffed!
