Well, I missed bidding. I've had a rough week (between work and someone hitting me yesterday causing a 3 car accident on my way to work just a few weeks after I had a deer crash) and overslept... actually woke up in time to bid but totally forgot about the auction, so kept going back to sleep. So, I'll hafta wait for a similar auction now. The closing bid was $1,001.00 ...is that a good price?
i'm going to say "no". you could definitely find a laptop from anywhere else with 1 GB of RAM, and buy the 4 GB of RAM yourself from Kingston.com and just install it (that would take 2 seconds).
Ian mentioned before (and he's correct) that Vista will see a max of 3.2 GB of RAM anyway. So I wouldn't stress too much about getting 4 GB of RAM at this point, 2 should be sufficient.
I'd also look for a laptop with a DVD Writer (this one didn't have it), SD card slot built in (if you have a digital camera or Treo, this is a must), and video memory (which this laptop did have).