[Irvine]

Windows XP runs fine with 512 mb of RAM. As long as you disable useless programs from starting at startup and aren't planning to launch nuclear missiles while simultaneously downloading anime off of uTorrent with 20 tabs open on Firefox you should be fine.

Yeah, but you get my point. I have a computer that has been running on XP since early 2002 with 512mb of ram (and mind you, this is PC 2100 speeds), and a Pentium 2.4 Ghz processor. Let me tell you, that thing was a beast; and is still more than capable at running tasks like music, internet, and some other multi-tasking quite efficiently.

Originally Posted by furuno

I'll preorder it with Ubuntu installed...

And if that's the case, RAM shouldn't be a problem at all. I enjoy Windows XP (you just have to tweak it, and remove unnecessary programs) but I have tested Ubuntu before. Very fast.