After attending the MSDN Developers Conference on January 16, I decided Windows 7 was just to cool not to try. However, I didn't exactly have an extra PC laying around the house. Then, a co-worker reminded me that my HP dv8000 had an extra drive bay. After a trip to the store to get another hard drive, a few hours of partitioning the drive, burning the Windows 7 image to a DVD and then installing Windows 7, it works like a charm. I was a bit hesitant to ever install Vista on this specific machine because I felt Vista would bring the machine to its knees. However, I'm quite pleased with the response of Windows 7 on the machine (dual-processor 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM). Looks like Microsoft has a winner!