I have an i7 laptop with 8GB of DDR3 and a 460m and the game looks like crap. I can say that because I have a desktop with a 28" monitor and a GTX 580 which looks absolutely stunning. So really its in the eye of the beholder. If you've never seen FFXIV running as it should then you'll probably look at it on a laptop and think its really pretty nice. But.... its not.

As a sidenote, I can't even run the game on my desktop on 'high'. I'm not sure what people mean by 'high' but all the settings at maximum will pretty much choke any pc unless you have some 580/680 sli/trisli nonsense to throw at it