2010 Macbook Air as Windows 7 Machine

So guys I'm looking into buying one of the new macboook airs, specifically the 13' with the 1.8ghz core 2 duo and hopefully 4gb ram. my operating system of choice is Windows 7 and i want to be able to use this like any normal pc if i purchase a macbook air. I know apple provides all the drivers needed for this and i could easly install it with bootcamp. I am just wondering if anyone else has done this and how performance is? I am interested in battery life, shutdown and startup time and any problems that may occur as a result of installing windows. Pretty much anything that you think i would want to know would be great. Thanks for your help.

Alec,
The reason why I purchased the MBA (2.13) is for this exact reason, and in addition to use OSX for itunes, imovie, idvd etc. I have a ZuneHD for music in Win7, I can tell you that this is now my "only" machine. I went from a 15" i7 2.66, 8GB, with dual internal HDDs ( 256 GB OWC SSD, 500GB Seagate Hybrid HHD and moved the superdrive to an external enclosure) and this thing has met my expectations and continues to do so. I absolutely LOVE the weight. I have both OSX and Win 7 on it. I do not use parallels or fusion, I just boot to one or the other. I also use the new Crucial USB 3.0 124GB stick as a external drive to store things, it too is just as fast as my internal SSD. I have ZERO issues with this machine. I have ripped music, converted to different formats in both OSX/Win7, and ripped, converted movies. I too thought about purchasing a thin, lightweight windows machine, but then again I kept coming back to the fact of Apple's build quality. It simply cannot be beat. The funny thing: I went back to an older macbook ad, read about the 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo and how its was X-times faster, better graphics, plays games, edit iMovies, make your own DVD with iDVD etc, and thought to myself if this can do it then with inferior memory technology, why not now? Is it just because we now have the "i" series CPUs? Nothing is really written to use the full potential of the new CPUs anyway. So if I am getting marginal gains, whats the point? If I saw a 50%+ increase I can see not getting the MBA. I can tell you that this MBA (2.13 4GB 256GB SSD) rocks.

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