Need help with a budget laptop.

[Zanz L. Barre The 3rd]

I'm looking into buying a budget laptop that can run FFXI at 28-30 FPS consistently. All I plan on using it for is school, browsing, and FFXI.

What would be the cheapest/minimum requirements for me to run FFXI at 28-30 FPS consistently? I'm not too concerned with future proofing this as I will most likely just be using it for browsing and school whenever I'm done with FFXI.

Processor?
Amount of RAM?
GFX card?

Preferably a 17 inch monitor so I can have access to a number pad.

Edit: Links would be GREATLY appreciated.

[BIGSTIC]

well was looking at laptops recently. not really sure about how well they will run ffxi since VISTA seems to kill most of their abilities from what i have heard. But found this one at best buy. About the cheapest 17" i could find. Just some of the specs are kinda lacking.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 6470439579

Course last week best buy was having a special on it for $750. So you kinda missed out on that. But yeah the 5400rpm HArd Drive is what pushed me away. Then the wife and I decided to just wait to buy another.

[Osede]

do you plan to bring it around? if so, don't buy anything over 15" laptop.

you just any c2d cpu, with about 1-2gb ram, and some decent but not to be good graphic card will be fine.

[Zanz L. Barre The 3rd]

I'm not gonna' bring it around everywhere (like school and such), just probably to a friend's house where we'll be stagnant for hours.

Are any of the Nvidia 7000 series good enough to run FFXI @ 28-30 consistently?

[mootsfox]

If you're still interested in a new laptop...

I selected the 17" model for you, I have the 15.4" model with the same resolution screen. I also have the same graphics cards (8600M GT), I have a 1.6GHz T5470 though, instead of the 2.0GHz C2D. I score 6541 in the FFXI benchmark on low, and 4538 on high.

Specs:

Vostro 1700 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition, SP2
LCD Panel 17.0 inch Wide Screen XGA+ LCD Display with TrueLife™
Memory 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
Video Card 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT
Hard Drive 250GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Optical Drive 8X CD/DVD+RW Read and Burn CD and DVD
Wireless Cards Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Wi-Fi Internal Card

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... l=en&cs=04

It should come out to $979. You can build the same thing in the 15.4" version (it's still fairly large) for about $800.