Hi Eric,
Yes I had got to the stage where I had to save after every image tweak just in case it crashed on me (as it did often when throwing around 120Mb 16bit Tiff files) and if I tried to stitch a pano together, then forget it. I got so used to watching the progress bar moving slowly across the screen, only to get to about 90% after a long wait, before it threw up the "Out of Ram this task cannot be completed" message.
Not entirely keen on W7 though, but I know I will get used to it, but haven't MS made a complete b*ll*cks of the Hearts game, although I don't suppose I need to play it anymore as I sit waiting for the machine to grind away updating the image.
So all in all, money well spent.
Photobloke