Pros: This thing installed SUPER fast from a clean install. I was upgrading from Windows XP so I purchased a new drive and formated and istalled this directly to it. Boots pretty quick (make sure you have the most up-to-date bios) and shuts down VERY quickly. I really like the new tool bar, and I prefer the search over the big long menus of programs. Having a REAL backup utility built right into the system and support to burn ISO's is a nice addition. Updates and installs seem to go much faster than they did in XP. I like the indexing service that Explorer does for all of my files, but you have to configure it to index everything-(This could take several hours to several days, but it runs in the background -mine finished in 20 hours for 4 TB's of data) The security warnings are not annoying at all, and I find them to be very helpful. The troubleshooting and help dialogues no longer assume that you're dumb and actually help solve problems. *NO MORE UNWANTED EXTRA SOFTWARE!!!!

Cons: The new "Librarys" section in the file system is really a plus and minus. The problem is that it automatically finds pictures and music, but if you have a few backups it may not find the most up-to-date version. iTunes finds the Music file and automatically uses that. This took some time to figure out, and I would have loved if a little pop-up had mentioned what the grouping does when you first open Explorer. Also on Explorer, while indexing makes it faster, the default setup and view is not very friendly. It hides a lot of files and then isn't very clear what drive or location that some files are actually on. Since I'm coming from XP this took some getting used to. All of my Cons were able to be corrected, but they did take me more time than I wanted to spend figuring them out.

Overall Review: More Pros: The system found and installed the following in seconds: Video Card, Motherboard tools, ESATA card, Lite-on DVD drive, Canon Scanner, Canon D40 Camera, both of my monitors(and configured them QUICK), my Keyboard, and my Mouse HOWEVER, even though my printer (Canon Pixma ip4000) is shown to be supported, it took me three tries to get it installed. This is partly because you need to install the printer software while it's turned off and THEN hook it upto the computer. This only took a few minutes, and it was the only hardware issue I had. The video card drivers were the most impressive. It not only picked the correct and NEWEST driver, it also installed the NVIDA Tools so that I could manage the card and my motherboard. I had my card and MB overclocked in about an hour from install. I build my computer about 2 years ago and I still get the following performance indexes: video and gaming 7.1, CPU and Ram both got 6.9 and HD got 5.9. I'm running a gforce 9600 and intel quad

Pros: Its clean, fast and easy to use.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Ive been running RC since release day for gaming and work (graphic arts) and have had zero problems. I am just finally buying the full version. For the 1 egg review on 2/3/10....Its your fault for not understanding what OEM means. You get zero eggs for failing at comprehension. OEM means 1 system and no MS tech support (no loss there). You can install it on one system as many times as you want. If you change the motherboard to a different model of board, its no longer considered the same system, but you can change out any other parts. You can reformat and reinstall on that system as many times as your heart desires.

Pros: It's windows, which I like. Pretty fast (although I have a really fast computer) and it does what it needs too, without too many extra stuff. I really like to buy windows separately and not preinstalled because that means that there is no annoying trial software.

Cons: There was some Big Brother-like software with windows that prevented me from moving around anything in Program Files, Windows, etc. Now I know that I shouldn't mess with the system files, but all I wanted to do was move DVD burner (which I didn't actually install-I don't know how it got there, but that's another story) from my SSD to my HDD to preserve space on the SSD. However, Windows had created some "Trusted Installer" that prevented me from doing that. It effectively was a "super account" that could not be accessed by the user that owned all of the files and blocked access to them. I thought I would have to manually take over every single file, but fortunately there was a program online that could do it for me (TakeOwnership.reg). Still, it was really annoying.

Overall Review: Quad-core CPU+Hyperthreading=8 cores in Task Manager!!!

Pros: Works great...LOVE the XP mode! Does what I need it to do. Great price as well.

Cons: Games were not installed by default. Had to add them via 'Add Windows Components'. Minor nag. Gotta have my Mah-johng Titans! :)

Pros: I was really hesitant to buy a new OS since I have no real issue with XP 64bit. However, I have no regrets whatsoever after installing. Everything just....works from the get go. I am still learning the little nuances between 7 and XP but so far I have yet to run into any major issue.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Just a note to Newegg. Usually your delivery times are FAR above your competitors but I can't understand your usage of DHL. I ordered a motherboard that shipped from California and got to my doorstep in 2 days flat. This software was delivered, LITERALLY, 1.5 miles from my house, travelled 30 miles north to a DHL hub, then 15 miles east to a USPS hub and back down to my door about a week later. motherboard 3000 miles, 2 days. software 1.5 miles, a week. Makes no sense.

Pros: W7-64 Home Premium is excellent, especially for use-cases that can take advantage of 6+gb of dram (like photography post processing). Also much better with SSD's compared to WinXp.

Cons: Underwhelmed by XpMode. I got Pro instead of Home Premium because I thought XpMode would be worth the difference. Lots of apps that worked fine with Xp don't work with W7, or work poorly.

Overall Review: I've got quite a few older apps that don't run with W7 (Visual Studio 98, VS-2003, Audition, etc.). My experience, at least so far, is that it is preferred to dual-boot to WinXp rather than use XpMode.

Pros: Same basic look/feel as Vista. I stopped playing with Windows while they sorted out the Vista mess. I come back, and they give me Windows 7, which looks like Vista. I guess on the good side, it didn't crash once while attempting to install. All drivers for the mobo (ASUS M4A79XTD EVO), and video card(Sapphire ATI5850) worked.

Cons: Didn't support the mobo SoftRAID out of box. Once I fed it the driver disk, refused to install to a partition larger than 2TB. Yeah, GPT. I know. Repartitioned inside and outside of the windows installer to try and create a MBR disk, Windows would overwrite it with GPT info each time. Had a fully installed non-bootable machine. Broke the array, installed to single TB disk.

Overall Review: It is what it is. You pay for a Windows operating system, you get a Windows operating system that looks to me like its trying really hard to be a mac-linux-BSD-something-or-another. Seriously, the Computer browser works like Gnome did 4 releases ago.

Pros: Much better than Vista! If there was anything you liked about Vista, it's probably in 7. If there was anything you hated about Vista, it's likely much better in 7. I really like that the Desktop gadgets are not "stuck" on the Sidebar anymore. Hardware and software compatibility are better this time, in part thanks to, and also at the expense of, Vista.

Cons: Little things I don't like, but they are my personal preference. I'm not a fan of Libraries, and I don't like the way Windows Explorer has been restructured. This is probably the only thing I liked better in Vista, the Vista way you had the favorite Links appear above the folder list, and you could resize it. Can't do that in 7. One other thing that annoys me is that you can't easily minimize an open window by clicking it on the Taskbar, it requires a right-click. I can totally see how Microsoft could make it work, in the same intuitive manner as previous Windows versions, but they haven't got the memo yet. I'm not sure I'll ever be comfortable with product activation either. It just feels wrong.

Overall Review: Windows 7 is clearly what Vista should have been, except in some very minor ways. Overall, this is a great OS, and a good replacement for Vista -AND- XP! If this isn't Microsoft's best OS yet, it certainly ties for first place with XP.