Looking for a laptop capable of running EQ

[Briq]

Hello! I've played EQ off and on for a long time. I have played on P99 on my old laptop but the motherboard fried and I have not played in over a year and a half. I've been lurking the boards for the past couple of months and I've really just had "the itch" to get back and play again. Even if it's for a couple hours a week.

I've been looking around bestbuy.com at possible laptops and am just really stuck. I want to find a laptop able to run EQ smoothly. The only options I've found that are in my price range, have enough ram and a graphics card have been laptops that have no dvd/cdrom drive and have windows 8. From the reviews I've read and what I've picked up here is that Windows 8 is absolutely terrible and it sucks to play EQ on it. Which sucks because the only laptops I can find with actual graphics cards all have Windows 8. Any Windows 7 machines have Intel Integrated and I don't want to take a chance that EQ will be choppy and play bad when I'm spending hundreds of dollars on it just to play EQ.

My limit I'd say is $500..$600 at the most because the only reason I'd get the laptop is to play EQ. I specifically want a laptop so I'm not limited to only a computer chair and can freely play anywhere in my apartment without any problems. I guess what I'm asking is after all this rambling, what is a recommended spec I should look for in terms of ram (in windows 7 or windows 8) and a graphics card (would intel integrated really cut it?).

Sorry for the long post. I appreciate and thank any responses.