On Friday afternoon, May 8, I bit the bullet and installed Windows 7 Release Candidate on my Acer Aspire One 150 netbook.  This machine has 1 GB RAM, a 160 GB hard drive, 8.9" screen, 1.6 GHz Atom N270 CPU.

 

Windows 7 installed smoothly (I went out after the install started, so I did not time it).  I initially had a little trouble getting it to recognize my wireless network, but soon was online.

 

 

They did move My Documents to be under \Users\username - not sure if that is also the case with Vista, since I refused to use Vista.

 

Overall, performance is better than Windows XP, which is to say pretty snappy.  I like the taskbar preview when you hover over a button - one or more thumbnails pop up to show you the window(s) related to the application.

 

Still adjusting the power saving settings, etc. but so far, this is the best Windows ever.  That is to say it is the least worst ;-)  Still much prefer the grace and beauty of  Mac OS X, and the power of Linux, but I can live with this.