a new video card wouldnt hurt, although i dont know much about laptop video cards... everything else is perfectly suitable for maya. Some people prefer to have atleast a gig of ram also (such as me) but 512 is supposed to be the minimum and when i had 512 in my old machine running this software it seemed to work for me. your processor is pretty nice, i wont even have to comment on that... all in all to make story short.. get a better video card, everything will run better....with the specs you have now.. that card has to be bottle necking your system