Anything less than 1.5 gigs of ram is too little to run vista well, or you have too much other stuff running while running vista.
compatibility mode
Yes It Is Compatible I Am Running 8 On My Vista Laptop
On an Intel mac you can run parallels which is capable of running xp and vista.
There are a few good laptops for running Windows Vista. Samsung have produced some laptops which work very well with Vista. Acer and Compaq are also two very good brands on which to run Vista.
Yes as long as you are running Microsoft Office on Vista.
You should buy an upgrade version of Windows Vista however your computer if running XP is likely not to be powerful enough to run windows vista. You should run Microsoft Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor before upgrading as this will show you any problems your computer may have running Vista.
your computer might not be powerful enough to run vista. but to be honest i hate vista, get windows 7. Are there any applications running?
Yes, I use Money 2004 on my laptop running Vista Business with no problems.
Vista has a Sidebar feature that allows you to see variously running apps on your desktop.
The easiest method is to verify with the vendor that the application downloaded will work on Vista. You are running Vista on a 32bit computer the application might have a chance to work, you can make software applications run on Vista by setting the compatibility mode to an older version of Windows. If you are running Vista on a 64bit computer the application will not work at all. The application will need to be a 64bit application and vista compatible.
its pretty obvious
Barely. Vista Home Basic will run, slowly, on a system with 512MB RAM. Increasing RAM to 2GB is strongly recommended.