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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3345692" data-attributes="member: 2810">Well, there's your problem  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> If you can afford it, get 2.  Laptop hard drives tend to be a lot slower than desktop drives, so the impact of low memory (which causes churning on the swap file) is exacerbated.  If you've got a 7200rpm drive (as opposed to the 5400 or 4500s that are common in laptops), it won't be so bad.If all you're going to do is fire it up, check email, do a little browsing, it won't be a big problem.  But if it's going to be a primary machine where you want to play games, do work, etc., you'll be happier in the long run.The sweet spot for XP was 1GB; that's the point where you really didn't notice any appreciable slowdowns during common use.  For Vista, it seems to be around 1.5GB, but that's a hard configuration to achieve with paired DIMMs.At the least, I'd try to make sure that the memory could be easily upgradeable later -- ie, if it's only got two memory slots, you'd be better off with 1 1GB DIMM that you could expand later, rather than 2x512 (like mine) where you'd end up throwing one away later on.</blockquote>