User blog comment:G0LD3NF1RE/Dawnguard encounters issues with Playstation/@comment-88.112.57.112-20120910142918/@comment-3152761-20120911194322

For most PC users they slowly piece together their rig over years, slowly upgrading. New comers to PC Gaming will have it tough and end up blowing 4000$ on a Retail computer. If you want to play on a laptop well your going to need to shell out more for the equivalent or sacrifice capablities.

Honestly if you want to conserve money you'll need a custom one. You don't need a godly pc, just make sure you get a modern graphics card (Geforce 460, 480 or 560 are great and not retardedly expensive although the 480 is a power hungry mother ****er its the best of those three), a decent processor (Intel, for the love of the Thu'um just Intel), and like 8g RAM to be safe (16 is excessive and usually only found in retail computers or when people don't want to upgrade it for a long ass time). The rest you'll need to figure out and decide depending on what you get, and make sure your power supply can handle everything and then some.

A very good computer will cost between 1200-1800, however if you're not in a rush and look for sales and bargains you could acquire yourself a 1500$ for 800$.