Not to be a wet blanket, but be sure that the laptop has at least 512MB dedicated video RAM, but really 1 GB is recommended as the low end gpu currently in alpha testing. (you can upload and try alpha with less, and some have and are reporting difficulties = something that I would expect in alpha testing regardless). But it is a known fact that the next version will use more of the processing power of the graphics card.
To be sure, make a post in the hardware section of the BBS.
