content: Yep, and there were masses of machines being offered with Vista and 512 MB of memory. These machines even featured stickers saying that they were designed for Vista. Vista crawls with 512 MB of memory. There were plenty of alternatives at this time which would run just fine in 512 MB, like XP or almost any Linux flavor from the day. Yet, these underpowered machines weren't offered with those alternatives because of the MS monopoly. The slogan for Vista was "The Wow starts now." but I always liked to say "The ow starts now".