Today I tried the latest Windows 7 beta on my old Athlon XP 3000+ (1GB RAM) desktop, and I have to say it was a very pleasant experience. I hated Vista so much and never did anything more than install and evaluate it for a while; but Windows 7 was much much better.
Installation was quick (~25 mins), and the system was up and running in less than 45 mins. The OS felt very responsive and fast and it was taking only about 500mb of my RAM which was pretty good.. Boot speed, login speed and shutdown speeds were all good. IE 8 beta felt very slugish compared to Chrome and Firefox, but everything else was nice and fast.
However I did have several issue with it. My XP partition was missing in Windows Explorer, but got it sorted soon. My SoundMAX onboard sound is still not working. I'm still struggling to get the disk shared so that I can access it from my Ubuntu laptop, but I think I'll figure that soon too.
In conclusion, MS seem to have nailed it this time. They have managed to make a good looking, but (relatively) light weight OS with good performance, that will appeal to a lot of people.
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