Given the fact that laptops can't be upgraded, I'd suggest getting the maximum amount of everything you can now. Chances are you will be needing it in the short term. It may cost you a bit more now, but it will save you oodles of money when you won't have to buy another laptop when your machine becomes obsolete and too slow. I have a Dell 8200 Inspiron and I have a 1.8 gig processor, and 512 MB DDR Ram. Pentium IV Processor with a NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go Graphic Card amd a 40 gig hard drive. The only thing that can be upgraded on it is that I can add another 20 gigs of hard drive space. I wish I had maxed out everything I possibly could at the time I bought it, because to buy another laptop now is way more expensive than it would have been to get the max of everything 3 years ago. I can render single figure scenes no problem. But I tried to render a scene with 3 figures and a background and while I didn't get a low memory, I was stuck at adding objects for something like 15 or 16 hours. I finally cancelled the render and went a different route. If you are serious about rendering complete scenes with backgrounds and effects and such, spend the extra money. If you are only into Poser as a hobby and plan to do mostly single figure images without backgrounds, then get something similar to what I have... with more memory, because aside from my inability to render complex scenes, my laptop is a very nice machine.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi