People can correct me if im wrong (I only know a little about comps) but with lap tops the key is finding one with a decent processer its easy to get a least a gig of DDR ram, a sata hard drive that is decent size, and a ok video and audio card. I purhcased a laptop for my wife off of Costco's web site and it had a centrino processer which is definitly no pentium but it was one of the better centrinos and I have done av and some other stuff with it and have had no problems, I did turn the graphics down as low as possible and did other steps to try to make sure it could run it ok. Also when I put the game on that comp it said that I did not have the requirements to run it and Im sure it was refering to the processer (though as I said above it did run it fine). I dont know if this helps at all but when researching prices for your new comp since its a lap top much of my focus would be on the processer inside. For the other parts I would get at least a gig of DDR or DDR2 ram a 120Gig sata hard drive and most lap tops i have seen come with nvidia geforce graphics cards which are fine.