I play LFS using a netbook connected to my TV. This one is out of charts anyway.
CPU: Atom DualCore N550 1.85GHz with HT (4 threads)
GPU: NVIDIA ION 512GDDR3
RAM: 2GB DDR3
Point is, if I can play LFS with full grid having no problems, you will be able to aswell using an i3 + HD3000, which kinda has the same brute force as my ION does. Just go for it.
Yea sorry, but we were not talking about spaceships here. We were talking about if LFS runs smooth or not.
And for your information, my ION scored 3062 in 3DMark06 O\C ed, which yes, it may not be much, but we're talking about a 10 inch computer here and that's something. Anyway, LFS doesn't really use SM 3\4, does it? So at the end I find that quite irrelevant.
I haven't seen a computer that couldn't run LFS in almost a decade. Since 2006 when I was taking Cisco in High School, I was able to not only play it, but run it on max settings on the school's Dell XPS computers.
Doh. What I'm trying to say of course is that it can be expected that there is a much lower resolution being used on the 10 inch so the GFX chip has a much easier job.