Hi Menticol.
I created a partition oh my hard drive and set my laptop up for dual boot with Windows 7 on one side and 8 on the other. My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad W520, Intel Core i7-2630QM processor, 2GHz, 4GB RAM. I first tested the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in VirtualBox, to help me decide if I wanted anything to do with it or not. I liked the speed of things, so I went ahead and created the partition.
It takes a bit to get used to the setup. I installed Chrome immediately, as the Metro IE browser would only let me have one tab open at a time. I removed all the extra stuff from the start screen that I didn't want (sports, news, games, store, etc) and only put in the things I'd need. I also created a power down and restart button in the start menu, so that I wouldn't have to go the round-about way to shut it down. Now that I've made those minor modifications, I rather like the setup. The shutdown and boot speed is incredible, which is great for me considering I'm usually in a rush to get things done.
When I first created the partition, my Windows 7 side wouldn't boot. It would just go straight into system recovery. I tried several things, but eventually decided there was something wrong with winload.exe. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to fix it, and the repair installation from the disc wasn't working, so I broke down and took it to a repair guy. Sure enough, winload.exe was missing, so windows 7 never even began to start up. I got it fixed and now I have both sides working like a charm.
But I digress....
There are a few programs I need that don't work properly in Windows 8, so I am happy to still have 7 as a backup. Hopefully within the next few months more support will become available, but aside from the complicated layout and the occasional non-operational program, I rather like Win8. The more I use it, the better it seems. It's just so much faster than Win7 and I plan to use 8 as my primary OS for as long as it's not obsolete.
That's my experience.
Regards,
Matt