I have owned a Dell Inspiron 9400 for almost 2 years with Vista Ultimate and have enjoyed it for the most part. I had some issues with wireless and getting the sluggish feeling after I had visual studio, 20 browser tabs open, iis 7, sql server, etc. all open at the same time. Of course I thought, well i have a lot of stuff running at same time so of course it will be slower. Well now with Windows 7 I have not one wireless issue, speed is crazy faster and I am still only using 1 gb of ram of 2 gb available.
I am absolutely shocked a how much better I like my laptop. I have a 8 Gb Vista 64 desktop at home, so my laptop is always going to seem sluggish, but now I really like using my laptop. I am not looking forward to having to wipe it again when the beta expires, but is well worth the joy i now get from my laptop.
I love the new task bar and my favorites always being down there. I can’t remember if I have even done a full reboot in a month. Oh if you are going to try this at home, make sure to do a clean install.