I should have posted this earlier but the laptop will no be my primary computer. I was in need of a cheap laptop quick so I just wanted the advice of this rather helpful forum for the direction I should go. After a little research, advice from this forum, and measuring how little money I have to spend. I managed to find something suitable. Once again thanks for the comments. I'd like to hear more about this subject.

My bet is a mid range PC, basic graphic card, lotsa RAM, fast BUS and 1.8 minimum so that you force yourself to develop for the widest possible user range as GStudio is only PC orientated.

When your pretty sure you want to go high end graphics, upgrade your card.

Quadro FX4600 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Workstation Video Card best card you will ever lay eyes on! works wonderfully under workstation loads.

-OR-
NVIDIA Geforce 9800(4-way sli)
though its not a card meant for rendering( its meant for gaming) it can do the job. just not as effeciently.


3-4 gigs of ram.
if i were you id upgrade to an sli motherboard and get two of the fx4600's
(thats if you have the dough)

dual-core processor(or if your just insane quad cores are always nice)
1Tb hard drive(SATA)
cd/dvd/lightscribe combo(SATA)
a physX card(the choice is yours on the physx cards...)
a nice heatsink(with fan) to keep the pc cool.
oh and fans(GOOD fans)
- liquid cooling solutions is an option but make sure you know what your doing

750watt powersupply(or 1000 if your still insane)
2 monitors(or 4 with the quadro fx4600)
HDMI connections

latest pixel/vertex shader( i think is 3.0 or 4.0)

and ofcourse a cool looking case with a clear side panel to let the world know "yea...my pc is bad a$$" and put some LED fans inside the case(green!!!) and let your freshly built beast ROAR! " I AM THE BIG GREEN BEAST BRED FOR RENDERING!"