I haven't tried 7 yet, but I have been hearing great things about it. I have Vista home premium somethin or other and it is a piece of crap. I get the blue screen of death, it takes forever to boot up (as much as 10 minutes) the computer runs slow on it. I have a copy of XP and I keep threatening to replace Vista with it, but I may just go with 7 when it hits the shelves, as it will require less effort to install 7 then reformat my computer, install XP and then reinstall all my other crap.