My Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1501. I have a AMD Turion X2 Dual Processor with 1G ram and an ATI Radeon X1150 integrated video with 256MB hypermemory. I have about 60 GB free hard drive space. The program installs "successfully". There is some message in the black screen, but it's hard to read because it disappears so quickly. I think it said something about the program already running.