This is my setup... cost me $1200 AUD (Australian)
3 Ghz Desktop Dual Core 4Gb Ram, Nvidia 9600GT vid card. The Ram
is the fastest I could get. Married to a 300gb Hard Disk, n 16 x DVD Player/Burner.
Comes down to $ really... if money wasn't an issue... you could boost it up by running TrackIR to track ur head movements, add to that Force grip controller (mouse feeds forces back thru ur hand even recoils from guns, or walking down steps).. marry that to the new 3D Systems u've got a nice system.
I'm sure u can play it on a laptop, but they aren't usually made for high end pc games... best thing would be take the game to the store with u, n install it on a few machines n see how it performs. Worth the time if it works well enough

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