Hardware Requirements and Stability

Are there hardware requirements for DS?  I can't seem to find them on the website...

It seems that I am having stability problems with lower end laptop models.  With some files DS will just hang and I have to end the process.

 

Other times by turning down the hardware acceleration it seems to solve the problem.

The laptop is a Dell E6400

Core 2 Duo

4GB RAM

250GB disk.

Integrated Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset.

 

Somehow it feels like graphics, but I would suspect with a simple 2D editing tool this wouldn't be as much as a requirement as a solid modeling application like SolidWorks, etc...