I've been using the RC since it came out and I LOVE IT! 

I have it dual-booted with Vista Home Premium on one computer and XP on another!

I'm waiting impatiently for my 7 disks to arrive.

Even though I have been using the 32 bit Win 7 RC

I have finally decided to go with the 64 bit, as it is the future

even though I only have 3 Gb of ram and this computer only can take 4 Gb max.

Waiting for my upgrade disc to arrive also. You'd think with preordering it back in July that it wouldn't take a week after the release date to get here ..Anyways... interested to see what others say about it before my disc gets here as I have yet to decide if I'm going to use it right away or not.

Yes there are. Not any major ones though... The only one I can think of is that there are some nre features to get used to.

I found 'em (the W7 skins) 

yep, looks like Vista and has the same horribly unintuitive explorer structure.

It's not only handy as a 'guest' spare, but as a backup for when issues arise with your main rig... as happened to me just recently.  My main rig mysteriously refused to post and was out of action for a week in the shop... turns out nothing was really wrong and I could have resolved it myself, but I've had several medical appointments and other stuff to deal with first.  Oh well, while it was there I got a newer mobo put in with 2 extra SATA ports and 4 extra USB's... rig seems to run even faster now (doing away with IDE and going all SATA) and Win 7 simply flies along.

Thing is, I will have a second spare, though it is higher end than the XP box (Vista x64/8gb RAM/AMD Athlon 6400 @ 3.2ghz) and will be used more as a workhorse for video recording/editing while I'm busy doing other stuff on my primary rig.

ok well i have turned very green with envy, luckily a good friend has bought me a copy of windows7!  who says there arent lots of nice ppl in this world?

I know, sacrilege on a skinning site, but, looks ain't everything.

Windows 7 isn't Vista with a new name.

It's a variation of Vista that WORKS....

Indeed Jafo, but it's more than a variation of Vista IMO. Having zero issues on my work PC.

At home I've been having this issue. Explorer.exe stops responding and gives me the option to restart it. It never hoses my programs though even if they are running and this happens. I've searched high and low for the answer but to no avail so far.

7 is going to kill XP faster than a speeding bullet.

FYI in case yrag comes along...

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          10/23/2009 6:11:34 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Duane7
Description:
Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16404, time stamp: 0x4a765771
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5be02b
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x0000000000051da0
Faulting process id: 0xe60
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca542d1308dd50
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 05c45420-c021-11de-8a7e-005056c00008

yeah.. hmm.. I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of.. disagree with you there.. yeaaahh

Sounds like its killing your 7 experience faster than a speeding bullet

lol.. not at all. The nice thing about the error is that unlike vista or xp, the error is not affecting any apps I am running at the time. The issue is isolated to my home system also. I'm running it on several systems and only 1 is having this occasional minor annoyance.

"faster than a speeding bullet" killing xp may be overstating it, but it will have a very large impact on the demise of xp in the home use sector. A majority of large businesses probably will not switch for serval years yet.

Dunno if it's related or not... I had explorer shut down when I inserted a data disc into my Rom drive.  It seems explorer didn't like me selecting the 'view files' option and something on the disc caused it to upchuck... once the disc was removed it returned to normal. Didn't hose my running proggies, either... was watching TV via AverMedia Centre on my 2nd monitor at the time, and the show continued uninterrupted

Funny thing, that!  I've used that disc to restore stuff on XP and Vista without explorer puking... maybe it's a new safety feature to prevent the installation of corrupt files.