Hey Rich, I can tell you that my daughters cheap laptop has vista, and it only has 1 gig of ram. She hasn't really done any complaining about it to me. Not real sure what else she has done with it that would be of help to you. She downloads lots of itunes music for ipod, and she has been taking pictures of her drawings and putting them on her laptop as well. I only purchased a cheap acer laptop from wal-mart at the start of the school year last year for her. Not much help, but I was able to drone on and on and on.
