And running very sweetly as it happens. Not without the odd problem though, but only due to an existing problem with the laptop, which I think I have now sorted. The laptop wouldn't boot for a while when I was trying to start the installation of Windows 7, using the 64 bit DVD, whenever I tried to access the BIOS to change the boot order or the boot menu, it would just shut down. This problem had occurred before and I think it is due to overheating, so I got the vacuum cleaner out and sucked out whatever dust had accumulated around the fan and it seems fine.

The install took a very reasonable 40 mins, three reboots I think and I only had one concern that it had hung when the progress bar was at about 80% and the HDD light on solidly but it soon started flickering again and went through to the end without problem. Had to do a clean install to go from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit Windows 7, but that was my intention anyway.

Not had any driver problems with any devices within the laptop but the problem which was flagged for my networked printer, a Canon iP4300, has occurred. I haven had time to check the Canon website to see their comments.

I can't say that the claimed improvement in boot time is happening, the time to the logon screen may be better but the time to have use of applications after logon seems much longer.

Downloaded plenty of updates, probably around 250Mb, and anti virus and Firefox added another 100Mb, still got to get Thunderbird for my mail and a Twitter client but after that, should be pretty much done and if I'd stayed at it all evening then the whole thing would be about 5 hours to be just about back where I was.

I expect the desktop machine to be a little more demanding as there are many more devices attached, but that's for another day.