A buddy of mine is going to buy himself a laptop, but needs it cheap. His main requirements are just to burn CD's, run ITunes, and be able to play NWN online. He asked what I would recommend, but I have no idea. I use laptops for work only, desktop for games. Obviously NWN is an older game - would a run of the mill Dell be able to run this? The game requirements are below if anyone would care to help out.

Processor Pentium® II 450 MHz or AMD K6 450 MHz Pentium® III 800 MHz or AthlonTM 800 MHz
Operating System Windows 98/ME/2000SP2/XP
RAM (Windows 98/ME) 96 MB 128 MB
RAM (Windows 2000/XP) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard Disk Installation 1.2 GB 2.0 GB
CD ROM or CD/DVD ROM Drive 8X
DirectX DirectX® version 8.1
Video Card 16 MB TNT2-class OpenGL 1.2 compliant video card NVIDIA GeForce 2/ATI Radeon
Sound Card DirectX® certified sound card
Multiplayer IPX or TCP/IP via LAN or Internet
Multiplayer via Modem 56k (2 players max) broadband

I was able to run it on my Dell D600.

It wasnt great, but it worked.