I have a pretty crappy laptop (1.3 GHz Core 2 Duo, Intel 4500mhd), but it would be fine if the game was not so tied to its framerate.  Am I correct that the lower the framerate drops below 60, the slower the gameplay is?  Is there any way to just let it run at a lower framerate but full speed like most games allow?  30-40 fps is perfectly playable in most games, but in Saira it's like slo motion on those screens.  The only other game I am aware of that behaves the same way is Eschalon.  And Beyond Divinity I guess, but that one is full of issues anyway.