I run Poser on my laptop and it's great; more stable and faster in fact then my (older) desktop system. Athlon 64 3200+, 1 Gig DDR 400, 7200RPM HDD, 128 Radeon 9700 Video, 15.4" Widescreen; about 6 pounds. I LOVE IT!!!! If I were to give you some advice, check out some of the so called "boutique" vendors, and know exactly what kind of spects you are looking for. I've noticed that a lot of the "big boys" - Dell, HP et all tend to cut a lot of corners on the components by using slow HDD, integrated video or slow RAM to get to a certain pricepoint or they use older technology.