Unlike games such as Doom 3, which really does need a much higher spec than the advertised minimum (especially the graphics), I have got Half-Life 2 up and running on a 1.8Ghz Toshiba laptop (the same one that had a hard disk failure last month, now fixed), Windows XP Pro SP2, an Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go chip with 64Mb of video memory, all of which enable me to run the game fast and very smoothly at 1