yeah, I need to get on that.   I've cleared off my main partitition to reinstall the RC, but haven't gotten aronud to doing it (obviously the bi-hourly shutdowns would make me get off my lazy bum, but I've got a month and a half left)

I just hope you won't need to reinstall between this RC and the not-pre-release RC

I'm comparing it to XP since I don't have a Vista machine, but I really like it.  There seem to be a few issues occasionally, but they're mostly when I start up games because no one supports Win7 yet.  It does seem fast and most of the features that have changed are rather intuitive (definatly a heck of a lot better than Office 2007).

Performance seems pretty good.  It uses a good bit of ram (again, compared to XP), but it seems to reduce the usage when there's something large like a game going on.

In comparison to Vista, ime, it's much faster.  The install was faster (22 minutes), it boots from shutoff state faster...it's just faster.  This is on a core 2 duo with 4 gigs ram.  I like it.  I can't wait until retail.

For me it's waaay faster!

The best yet, absolutely!

downloading the 7100 RC build now (64 bit). Probably gonna do a clean format and use it as my main OS. I just hope i dont run into driver problems with my auzentech forte x-fi sound card since it uses some of creatives drivers.