Anotheroptionis a low-cost machine with the HomeBasicversionofVista, whichalso tends to costless and to requireless-expensivehardwarethanthe more-common Vista HomePremium.
But being that chances are your next computer might not be running Vista, for the general consumer, the Vista Capable badge only means it'll support the baseline version, HomeBasic Edition -- which we'll be promptly ignoring, thankyouverymuch -- and may not do fun things like run Aero or be able to use more "advanced" Vista features like HDCP.