I bought Win 7 yesterday on a whim but had thought about installing fresh on a new hard drive. I mean, 1.5 terabyte drives can now be had for just $135. It's always better to install fresh rather than upgrading as many unused programs get installed over the years. The junk obviously degrades an operating system. Still, my 500 megabyte drive is still two-thirds empty. I just went ahead with the upgrade.
I didn't find any drastic differences to note. It might seem more of a jump for those who have stuck with XP all these years. All my peripherals seemed to have new device drivers. My video card, in fact, is hopefully more stable now. I spent half the day streaming hulu.com to the big-screen TV. The time of year we choose to take our vacation means we used to miss the new programming season. Now we're almost to the point where one could avoid cable or satellite and simply watch via the net.
Episode 1 of this season of House.