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I'm personally a Mac user... I only run Windows XP in Parallels or Bootcamp if I need to.
Anyways I thought I'd try out the Windows 7 RC in parallels - why not?
So here is the video I made of me messing around in Windows 7.
Not sped up at all, with sounds and all.
In the video I show off many of the built-in features of Windows 7 such as the chess and media center. I know I forgot to give you a preview of the Windows "control panel" but it's basically the same thing as the one in Vista.

As for my personal thoughts after testing Windows 7:
Definitely better than I expected from Microsoft. The annoying "cancel or allow" popups from Vista seem to have been mostly remedied, and the OS itself seems pretty fast, secure, and stable (though that could be just because they don't pack the RC with lots of useless software in order to keep the .iso file size down).
It installed very quickly but was a bit of a pain to customize with the new control panel, but that's where the handy Windows Search bar (completely ripped off from Mac's Spotlight) comes in.
internet Explorer 8 (built in) was pretty fast as you can see in the video.

Now of course this is considering my entire preview is based on Windows 7 running on a Parallels Desktop 4.0 Virtual Machine (VM) with very nice specs... I have no idea how well the OS would run on an older, less awesome PC.

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Computer Specs:

MacBook Pro Aluminum 17-inch
2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
8 GB 1063 MHz DDR3 RAM
320 GB hard drive @7200 RPM
512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics
Mac OSX 10.5.7

VM specs:

1 CPU @ 2.93 GHz
4 GB of RAM
256 MB graphics
32 GB hard drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Music:
first song - "Beatopia" by me (made in GarageBand... try doing THAT on a PC lol)
second song - "Kalimba" by Mr. Scruff (free song that comes with Windows 7)


Windows 7 RC download link:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-7/download.aspx

both the 64-bit version and the 32-bit version should only take a few hours to download and they both will expire March 2010. The best part though, is that it's absolutely 100% FREE!


So yeah... enjoy your sneak preview of the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 RC.
PS. This is the best preview ever!! (less info)