In article <eQJ8FR7QHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>,
beck@none says...

>> I got a low-end Toshiba laptop from Office Depot at
>> year-end, and can get the "free" Vista Home upgrade for
>> $9.95 S&H. And I'm just not sure I'm going to bother
>> doing the upgrade since I would need to add more ram,
>> and even with that I don't know if the computer is
>> really up to the task.

> What are the specs of your machine?

It's a Toshiba L35-S2171 with XP Home on it. That's a
Celeron M 420 (1.6 GHz), with 512 mb of shared ram
(integrated video and audio). So, you know, Home Basic is
as far as it's gonna go, and even with another 512 of ram, I
just don't know if I wouldn't be better off using XP.

I do all the heavy lifting on my desktop computer, and only
got the laptop for mobility (i.e. - the back porch). I
would guess that video chat is the most demanding thing I
would ever use it for, and I just wouldn't want to slow
things down switching to Vista, particularly if I would have
to buy more ram just to do that.