Trust me, I've installed Windows 8 now on 4 x pc's. It is much, much faster than Windows 7. Particularly, boot, shutdown and sleep / resume. It uses les RAM, and once you get over the initial learning curve you'll love it! I've been playing with the enterprise version for a few days on a spare laptop to see if I wanted to "upgrade" to Win 8. Performance wise there is little difference. The new interface is interesting, and as you get used to it is workable. But realistically, it is not suited to the desktop. The supplied "apps" are mostly poorly conceived, and ultimately, I don't think Win 8 offers anything over Win 7. I would wait a while, let driver issues get sorted, let the dust settle before thinking of upgrading. It is much, much faster than Windows 7. Particularly, boot, shutdown and sleep / resume. The "boot" isn't faster at all. It just hibernates by default, I don't know how people keep misunderstanding this. The new interface is balls. Install Start8 and its doable. The new file transfer dialogues are better. That's about it. Overall there are issues though. Every now and then there are bluescreens or weird problems (try hard reseting your PC during boot, and it takes AGES to recover) and just generally it feels like a very iffy release (then again I never tried ME or Vista!) Performance wise there is little difference. The new interface is interesting, and as you get used to