Anyone has Vista experience with 1Gb Ram?

I am considering to upgrade my ram upto 2 Gb, but it's really a huge waste to replace my current 2x512mb with new 2x1gb. Usually, I just do some regular works on my laptop, such as ms office, ie7, latex, matlab, no 3D animation games, no video editing.
Hope you guys could share some experience here. any advice is welcome! Thx!

 

1 GB is perfectly fine, believe me. You really don't need more if you're not video editing, 3D rendering, intensively gaming, etc.

 

FREN is correct, 1 GB is fine for normal use but if you start to play games it will be too little.

 

The current reccomendation by Microsoft is only 1GB for Vista unless your running Ultimate. Your all set unless you run memory intensive apps like the others said.

 

I installed Vista on my Inspiron 5100. Its a Pentium 4 with 1 gb ram. It ran great honestly. and it was pre RC1 build, so i'm sure the final would run even better.

Only thing with my I5100 is that its got an EXTREMELY crappy ati 32mb video card....so no aero. no hope for aero........

 

1gb is fine but I would not suggest upgrading to Vista yet they still have lots of bugs to fix

 

I have an HP preloaded w/ vista premium and i have 1gb, it operates fine and quickly, but then again the most ive been doing at once was using office 07, listening to music, and using the internet...

 

i am running Vista Ultimate with my 1GB RAM and it works great

 

1 Gb is the minimum suggested by MSFT but Vista is highly dependent on RAM so I personally would go with the 2 GB RAM. I read a post earlier somewhere on here and it explained this stuff however i cant find it so you could probably do a search on Ram and Vista

 

millions of thanks for the comments, guys!
i think i'm gonna stay on 1Gb for a while and hope there's a hot deal of Ram sometime^_^.
i was wondering how different on performance it would be from 1gb to 2gb ram. is there anyone who did any test by using certain performance-scoring software like 3Dmarks or something else?