What do you think?

Please no slamming the M$ in this one, just try to be honest about WIN 7, not linux, OSX etc... please compare it to the other windows.

Looks and feels very similar to vista. The only real difference I saw was all cosmetic.

That was my first impression of Vista compared to XP.

I have noticed a LARGE speed increase in 7. Even over XP sp2

I think calling it a wholly different operating system is a bit of stretch. I seems to me to be more of just a Vista tweak. If you want to see a trimmed down vista try Tiny Vista.
The 512Mb RAM memory requirement is reduced to just 256Mb. The requirement of almost 8Gb of disk space is reduced to less than 3Gb. You also have the new Aero theme in this edition of Windows and the ability to use Windows Update.
There are no services taken out of this special edition of Windows.
Only three services have been disabled: Remote Registry, Windows Error
Reporting Service, Windows Search.