This would have been a decent laptop, with plenty of HD space, a good amount of RAM, good screen size while still being portable, great sounding speakers, and good wireless range.  That is, until you realize that Vista ruins almost all of that.  Of course for Vista, 1 GB of RAM is barely enough to run Windows itself, let alone any other programs.  Even after upgrading to 2GB its still slower than it was when I bought it.  There is still plenty of harddrive space, and the read/write speed is good, but after being on for more than an hour none of that matters, as everything slows down to a crawl....