My laptop has a 60Hz 1920x1080p screen so the biggest upgrade in visual hardware will be to that 144Hz. Also 17.3" to a 24" screen is a big difference.
DAMAGEPLAN do you have EFT? I've been interested in it, but haven't gotten it due to A] not having an appropriate PC and B] reports of lots of bugs and horrible US servers.
Texas when I got my laptop it made sense, I was a college student that was constantly commuting to school and I needed to be able to bring my work with me. It has an i7 processor and a gtx 770m gpu so in its day it could run skyrim, fallout, bf3, etc. on high/ultra settings at 60fps. its only sucks now because of the 3GB vram where most games now need at least 4.