The most important consideration isn't "is it a laptop?", but "how good is the 3D video acceleration?"

A Pentium-II 450 MHz handles the game just dandy. But slap an old video card in a hot new desktop and it's gonna crawl!

In fact, I upgraded from a P-II 450 to an Athalon 1.4 GHz and I see no difference at all. But when I upgraded from the old TNT2 video card to a GEForce 3 TNT, whoa - what a difference! The TNT2 wasn't bad, it just wasn't this good.

Some newer laptops are coming out with decent 3D accelerators. Just be careful that you get one that's good. The Trident Cyberblade, for example, claims to have 3d acceleration. Don't believe it. It sux. So do most of the others. I haven't seen the new GEForce Mobile units. Anyone have any info to share about these?

-brad