7 is what vista was supposed to be. much better than vista. it still uses the reworked vista networking stack.. and i have run into issues with HP causing the system to think i have local connectivity, but no connection beyond the router. I believe it is HP. But that is besides the point.

Readyboost is handy if you need more ram onthe fly, but should not be relied on. Remember, UFD's have an expected life of 1 million re-writes. that can go a lot quicker if you are using it for make-shift RAM.

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New PC :
New: Phenom 9500 Quad 2.2, 4gb ram XP Pro 64-bit (Sata 0), XP Pro 32 bit (sata 1), 40 eide HDD (music), Pioneer Blu-Ray Burner, HP Multidisk CD-RW/DVD-Rom, 2x250 Seagate HDD's, ATI Radeon 3870, Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe WiFi-AP

Old PC:
P4 1.5GHz, 768 Ram, hda-80Gb (80Ubuntu), DVD R/RW