I found Win8 to be a pretty fast OS though; boot times and shutdown times were faster for me than Win7, so that would be a good reason to upgrade.
Out of the box driver support was great, but missed some things for me. I'm going to wait until later this winter, when all the kinks (and possible 'Win 7 mode' mods) become available...in some ways Win 8 is a worthy upgrade if you can get past Metro and the odd driver issue.
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