I have a laptop, which was bought two and a half years ago.

And this my only computer, and Maya will work just fine!
Here is it's specs if this can help you out:

Dell Inspiron 5000 (!the first 5000 model, before the 5000e!)
Pentium III 600 Mhz
18 GB HDD
ATI Rage Mobile P, AGPx2, 8 MB VRAM (max)
1 (one) usb 1 port (I use a bub&pcmcia card = 4 usb1+2 usb2)
2 pcmcia slots
Battery-Bay = max 3 hours
15" TFT SXGA+ resolution (1400x1050)

Toutch pad, no stearing pin, noisy mouse-buttons for the toutch-pad (almost never use them).
Internal 3.5 FDD
One media bay = one extra battery/DVD/R-RW/ZIP-100

512 MB SDRAM is max (I have 384 MB)

heh it cost too much, a long time ago, but now a days you get supercomputers for the same price from dell...
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Bought new keyboard after tilting a cup of sour milk over it. Machine short circuited (I recon) and had to dry for 14 days.
Sour milk was observed dripping out of the FDD... and the speakers... ...but now... it works fine

DVD drive changed (warranty refit (no cost))
Battery changes twice (battery recall+warranty refit (no cost))

Bought a usb2 "full-speed" scanner, which to my suprise isn't the same as usb2 high-speed......
Plan to buy an external HDD soon...