those pc specs aint bad for a laptop. hell, why would you need 4gb ram, i can run most basic stuff on 512, and GTA4 on 2gigs. a ssd will probly be the only thing worth while. i wouldn't pay for norton antivirus tho, its utter crud. most the infected machines i fix had either norton, McAfee or avg free. best ones ive used are NOD32 and avira, malwarebytes is good too, my shop uses it. vista is realy buggy. avoid it like the plauge, windows 95 is much better. on a side note, store bought laptops are usually preloaded with junk, so clean installing 7 over a formated drive will make it fast, just make sure u got a back up copy of all ur drivers