Hello. I'm looking to buy a new laptop that will play Civ 4 Warlords, and don't know too much about computers in general. Can someone please tell me what I should be looking for?

A store clerk told me that an Acer laptop with the centrino core 2 duo T5200 processor, 2GB of ram, and the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics card will be enough. It runs Windows Vista home edition.

Would anyone be able to verify that? What else would I need? Is it safe to assume that newer laptops would be able to support a game like Civilization 4? Thanks.

MINIMUM
Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1.2 GHZ
256 MB RAM
64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
DVD-ROM drive
1.7 GB free hard disk space

RECOMMENDED
Windows XP with SP1 or higher
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1.8 GHz
512 MB RAM
128 MB graphics card with DirectX 8 support (pixel- and vertex shaders)
DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
DVD-ROM drive
1.7 GB free hard disk space

This is from the box... do you have this info already?

Thanks Nick. I do have the specs from the box, but it's all mumbo-jumbo to me. I just want to know if what the sales clerk tell me is enough. Is that all I need or is there something else I need?

If you've got the Reccomended specs it should be fine. My computer has 1GB RAM, 256 MB 7300LE Nvidea graphics, and it runs fine. I'm not sure on the processor, mine's intel. Just check that you have DVD-ROM and it should be OK!

{EDIT} This is for Civ 4, not warlords. I suppose it's the same specs?

I have a lower end DELL with ATI X1300 mobile graphics. Works well.

Inspiron E1505
Core Duo 1.6
1g mem
ATI X1300

The Acer you described should be dandy.

You might want to consider getting a desktop instead of a laptop. They are usually cheaper for the same amount of performance, and often have better performance for the same specs.