Will my computer handle Vista well?

[Monopoly]

I have a two or three year old Packard Bell Media Centre system. It runs XP like a charm and upgrade advisor says that my system can handle Vista, but I'm not sure how well.

I have 1.5 Gigs of Ram, will be upgrading it to 2 in the near future.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2 GHz processor.
ATI Radeon Express 200 Graphics Card

Will it run well?

Thanks, in advance.

[blanky12!]

upgrade your gfx card. Then i think it can run it well.

[Monopoly]

upgrade your gfx card. Then i think it can run it well.

Could you recommend one? Bearing in mind I never plan to play games with this machine.

[GoldenMerc]

Vista isnt worth getting, I have XP on my new laptop and its perfect, fast aswell i have Vista on my PC and tbh its utter crap.

[blanky12!]

Could you recommend one? Bearing in mind I never plan to play games with this machine.

Whats your price rage?

[Monopoly]

Vista isnt worth getting, I have XP on my new laptop and its perfect, fast aswell i have Vista on my PC and tbh its utter crap.

Thanks for your input but, I've been using Vista for over a year on my laptop and I loved every minute of it, I'm just wondering whether it'll work as well on this PC.

Whats your price rage?

Hmmm.. 50 - 100 quid I guess. I have no idea what will get me a good gfx card. ;P

[blanky12!]

This looks like a good GFX card; NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

[Recursion]

My laptop graphics card is crap andf it runs Aero fine :S

[Monopoly]

My laptop graphics card is crap andf it runs Aero fine :S

So.. are you saying I should do it then?

[xxMATTGxx]

Your graphics card will be most likely fine to run Aero, unless you start playing games and you want more?