Well actually the way microshit handles ram memory that is not exactly true. It would utilize a large part of it but vista only use about 1 gig when it is running and the most someone would need is about 3-4. I have 4 and it NEVER uses it all. And I do heavy video editing and stuff. You could turn off the swap file but some programs the way that they are written, won't operate like that. They will crash even though there is enough memory. We are dealing with microsoft here.