From: 4Gb of RAM recommended for optimal Vista performance (By IBM)..
June 5th, 2007  
mmarsh
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Originally Posted by 10cents View Post
Wow! That's a lot of RAM just to decently run an OS. I got the chance to play a bit with Vista in a Dell Inspiron Core Duo 1 GB RAM the other day. It was fast but I wasn't able to fire-up graphics software so I'm not sure how 1 GB of RAM would stand-up to heavy use.
The author didn't exactly say what apps he was running. If your running VISTA with Photoshop or encoding video then 4 GIGS RAM will help. I don't think you'll need it to do internet, Normal MS Office usage (except if you do heavy Powerpoint), or games however.