I may have to bite the bullet and simply get a PC just to run a sim on.

However this is all I would use it for.

Can someone please tell me what the minimum requirements for AFP are if I was to by a PC laptop. Don't want to spend loads just for a sim to work

Any help will be much appreciated and I've gone way to long now without a sim and HAVE TO HAVE ONE!!!!!

A laptop will cost you at least a grand. I have a thinkpad that is fairly good that that cost me $1600.

A desktop is much more inexpensive than a laptop. The big thing is the video requirements and having a serial port for AFP.

Try this link for more info:
http://www.aerofly.com/requirements.html

Dude turn on ya tv!! pentium 4's are going for £400 in sales complete systems, just make sure you get a good gfx card with it, at leat 128mb card or the smoke effects will lag you to crashville

The requirements for AFP are not high at all.
Heres my system:
AMD T-Bird 1GHz
384MB of DDR 2100
GeForce 2 MX400 32MB

This computer runs AFP on 1024x768 and high texture at a constant 50 FPS (with smoke at all times). It never lags. You can buy a system with these specs for around $500 and even less if you have a monitor and can build it yourself.

You dont have to go and spend $200+ on a video card unless you want to play more advanced games.

Do you have a computer now? What are the specs?

EDIT: Just saw you wanted a laptop. If this is the case then you are going to be spending around $1200. Be sure to get the new Intel Centrino and a video card with at least 64MB (the video card memory on a laptop is shared with the monitor so you need more). Anyway, you can see from my specs what you basically need.