Busying myself with installing Windows 7 final. Just finished on my office machine. So far I like it. They've made some neat logical ergonomic changes to the desktop. That's the biggest superficial difference I see at this point. Seems pretty responsive so far as well. We'll see how it goes working on it. That'll be the big test.

Tonight I'll do the same on my home machine which will be a bigger test due to the amount of software I have on there. I'm also going to be RAIDing two of my hard drives which should be interesting. Keeping fingers crossed...

Update: Now this would be a nice purchase:

That's a WD Raptor hard drive on the left (Raptors are high-speed conventional drives, still probably faster than what most people have in their machines) and a Solid State Drive running on the right. Too bad SSD drives are still too pricey and low capacity right now. Visual proof that your hard disk is the single most performance-choking item in your desktop.

Update2: All is going well. Will be back up to full operations soon (though the reinstallation of software and restoration of data and tidying of shelves will be ongoing for some time).