Thread:ILYx3/@comment-4038843-20121126152651/@comment-4038843-20130104174601

Any hard drive with atleast 40 gb is good enough for CA. I use my 2 SSDs for a boot drive and some frequently used files. I store most of my PC games (except for CA and BF3 teehee) on my HDD. As for the fire and gas black screens you might run into some issues with frame rates due to the lack of graphic horsepower. The Nvidia GT series is not meant for gaming and are intended for home theatre systems. I would reccomend buying a laptop more like this: http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/B5Y73AV?adid=10428184&affpid=3640576&aoid=35252

^You can customize this to your own personal preferences.

As for Windows 8 CA runs fine on the 64 bit version but not the 32 bit version due to memory leak issues. However most new laptops do come with the 64 bit version of Windows so you shouldnt worry much about that.