Bruce Greef wrote:
All of the simulators do a lot of texture rendering so expect to need a
decent OpenGL capable card for good results.

Or in the case of Condor a card with good DirectX support (a feature most 3D
accelerated cards support nowdays).

Anything in the nVidia FX 5200 range and up should work fine but a lot of
laptops are aimed at displaying spreadsheets and word documents so they
stick in a really cheap graphics chipset.
That's one of the reasons why "gaming" laptops are a lot more expensive.

Paul