If i had the option i would definately stay away from Vista. I use an Acer Aspire 9815 which does benefit from a fairly ggod spec for a laptop core2 duo T7200 with a 2gb ram but my old amd was faster is several situations, especially startup despite running msconfig and shutting down several startup programs.
Please Please ... any chance i can get a copy. I have a acer aspire 9815 and have managed to reload driver and utilities after hard drive corrupted but need arcade