I'm a high school student and I'm looking for a laptop that will run solid works smoothly. My budget is around 1200 and I'm hoping that this laptop will last me for at least four to five years. I've been eying the lenovo thinkpad T440p which comes with a intel HD 4600 integrated graphics. With an option to upgrade to the NVIDIA Ge-force gt 770m 1gb. Since it is a gaming oriented graphics card, i want to know if i'll be seeing any massive improvements in performance if i do choose the NVIDIA. I won't be making anything massive, around 100 part assemblies. Also, i may do some gaming (dragon age origins, mass effect 2) and i want to know if it can run those games smoothly and on what settings.
if it is important, i'm deciding between the Intel Core i7-4700MQ or the Intel Core i5-4200M.