I just hope that it;s not going to require us all to go out and buy all new computers just to run all it's features like vista did.
Windows 7 will use the same requirements that Vista requires. Since you say Vista doesn't run smoothly on your machine, neither will Windows 7.I guess I didn't have much luck with vista on the old rig since I got it 3 days after launch and the bugs weren't worked out but that's my tradition though, getting new versions of windows within the first week of launch.
edit: Mak, is that pic of the most recent build of win7. It doesn't have the new taskbar.