The system seems faster to me but then again I don’t have alot running right now.  It just seems more responsive.  We’ll see how it goes with network file copies, etc.  I haven’t measured boot time just yet but it wasn’t really a problem before so I can’t imagine it’s a problem now.

Install took less than the 1 hour warning although not my much.  Maybe 35-45 minutes including the reboot-applying updates cycle.