Should I upgrade my software?

I would like to upgrade to CS4, but I am not sure what is the best thing to do considering my hardware limitations.
Currently I am running CS1 (Production Premium bundle? Includes Premier Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrater, In Design, Go Live (!), Encore, Audition, Version Cue, Acrobat) on the following system:
3.4GHz Pentium 4 550 with HTT (shows up as two 3.4 GHz proc's), 800 MGz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, 1GB PC-3200 400MGz DDR, ATI Radeon X600 XT 256 MB, system on WD 250GB 7200 rpm SATA, storage on Promise 2+0 Stripe SCSI RAID 0 (2 400GB WD drives), Windows XP Media Center edition SP3. It is an off the shelf Sony Viao R VGC-RA826G. I only added a SCSI controller and storage drives.
I can add one more GB of RAM (2GB total) and plan to. Otherwise, this machine seems to be fairly un-upgradeable. After a lot of searching, I can't find any recommended video card upgrade or anyone who has sucessfully done that on this model. Physical space limitations of the case and proprietary design and fit of the small power supply have been specifically mentioned as hindrences to upgrading. Still, the system is well above minimum specs for CS1. It was pretty close to "state of the art" when I bought it in 2005 and CS1 was the latest from ADOBE at the time, so the system and the software should be fairly well matched. It's funny, at the time folks were raving about the video card with 256MB and the HUGE 2GB of available RAM. Even the HTT processer was still a marvel back then...
I would really like to upgrade my software and take advantages of all the improvements (including the replacement of Go Live with Dreamweaver and Flash). First I would like to hear some experienced opinions about whether my system can handle it... I know with 2 GB of RAM it will meet the minimum requirements for CS4, but I wonder if I am better off meeting the minimum requirements of CS4 or sticking with CS1 for which I am well over-spec'ed...
BOTTOM LINE: All in all, would I be better off with CS4 on this machine (or CS2 or CS3), or am I better off leaving CS1 on this machine because of the processor, RAM and GPU limitations?
Eddy

You can't upgrade to CS2 or CS3 since they're no longer available. The CS to CS4 upgrade price will go up by $200. at the end of April and if all things remain the same, when CS5 comes out you won't be eligible to upgrade at all.
Now that that's out fo the way, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you won't be at all happy with the performance of CS4 on that machine. At this point, you'd be far better off buying a new machine with Vista 64 a 512 meg video card and at least 8 gigs of RAM.
You can download the trials if you'd like but I'll be shocked if you're happy with the performance.
Bob

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