i played FFXI for a year on my laptop. about the graphics card on a laptop its pretty hard ti upgrade them. mainly becausemost laptop graphics cards are IGP or integrated. which means that they are built directly inot the mother board. yeah i know this sucks its keeping me form upgrading mine right now.
You would have to look at the graphics card on the computer and if it says anything about IGP odds are you are out of luck on an upgrade.
About the needing the number pad. it is rough to go without it but there is a setting in game that you can set especially for laptops without a numberpad that makes that a lot easier. (personaly i bought a gamepad and used that)
