are you on crack? they are fookin shite!

I've never known anything so flimsy and unreliable as a Sony Vaio. Performance isn't great either.

512mb will be fine for vista basic, i had ultimate running on an athlon 3200 with 512mb DDR and it was fine. Only thing it struggled with was dvd maker, as that thrashes the nuts off it. that isnt included with vista basic anyway. I've now got athlon 64 with 1gb running ultimate and it flies

1GB would be preferable but for web browsing and general messing about it'll be fine. you can always buy an additional stick and bang it in there.