Update of previous post:
I successfully got 7 dual booted with Vista on my laptop. My first impression is very good of Windows 7 so far..... It also seems to run noticeably faster on my computer. I have run Samplitude 10, Safari, VLC, and iTunes so far with do hiccups at all. It is also nice that I can load my files from the vista partition on Windows 7 with no trouble at all. I may actually consider dumping vista all together and using dual booting using a striped down version of XP to run in the field with my mbox2......
All in all Windows 7 looks pretty nice to me, after only about 12 hours of use though.....LOL I can tell already I prefer this to vista, so I have no doubt vista has to go, and sense Windows 7 seems to run Samplitude just fine (which was my concern) I will no doubt make it my OS of choice for my PC based machines. I will try to install Pro-Tools 8 this week sometime and see how it works. I ran into some problems with it using vista the first time.