What laptop should I get for Civ 5?

[B-29 Bomber]

Civ is tied to your steam account, not to anything else.
You can install Civ5 on every computer you want to, how often you want to.

But when I tried installing on my dad's computer it said (when I tried typing in the Product Key) that it was already activated on another computer so...

 

[The_J]

Activation is not the same as installing .
Just download steam on your dads computer, log in with your steam name and password, and you should be able to download it without any code or some other kind of activation again.

 

[Luis_Ah_Hoy]

The game plays reasonably well with my HP ProBook 4530s (which doesn't have any special GPU integrated, just the simple Intel(R) HD Graphics Family).

 

[compwiz1202]

Do they mean integrated as in part of the CPU, or are they just meaning it's soldered so you could never upgrade it?

 

[timtofly]

Do they mean integrated as in part of the CPU, or are they just meaning it's soldered so you could never upgrade it?

Normally one does not upgrade a laptop. There are mobile Graphics "cards" that are seperate from the main board and CPU just like in a desktop PC, but they are more Daughterboards, and can be replaced if they go bad seperate from having to replace the whole mainboard. It is not like one can go to a store and purchase one that they can swap in and out though.

Intergrated just means that it is a chip on the mainboard and not seperate, but neither can be truly upgraded.

On a loptop, one can change a hardrive or memory, but that is about it (sometimes a DVD/BD drive).