I have a 2 ghz Pentium M(obile) 760, 64 mb integrated ATI mobility graphics card, and 1.5 gig of ram (used to be 512 mb), and this handles Maya with light modeling and animation, plus mel. This is a 2 year old, IBM T43. So basically anything with these specs should do fine. But the 700m costs more than $400...hell the…