Novation Launchpad - Advice please!

RocknRollDave

Hi all, 

My daughter uses one of these at school and wants one for Xmas. We can stretch to the Novation Launchpad Mini Mk3.
She is also having a laptop - from richer relatives than us!
The Launchpad comes with free Ableton Live Lite, which I expect will be plenty to get her going. 

Quick question: is there anything specific the laptop needs to have, spec-wise, to work well with the Launchpad, or should any fairly economical current laptop do a decent enough job?