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I've been running the Release Candidate on my netbook for months, and am thoroughly impressed with it. I have three computers that need upgrading, and I spent all day doing it. I was able to do my main computer in a couple of hours as it was a straight upgrade. I should have wiped it and re-loaded as It had the 32 bit version of Vista and I need the 64 bit version, but there is just too much stuff on it and it would take DAYS to reload everything. Maybe I'll save that for later.
The netbook was a different story, It had the RC, and there is not direct upgrade. It's wipe and install only. I have an external drive for backing up data, so that was only time consuming but not actually hard.
Aside from the UI and speed/resources improvements that you mentioned, what impressed me was the "HomeGroup" feature. With just a couple of clicks, all of the computers on my network are linked; and all the data and shared resources on any of them are instantly available on all of them. Setting all that up on Vista's "Networking" tool was a real pain.
Bottom line: Microsoft hit a homer on Windows 7.
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