Looking to get into Dolphin emulation

[Shonumi]

Your laptop, unfortunately, won't be up to the task of playing Skyward Sword. The i7-3517U is an Ultra Low Voltage CPU; it is designed specifically to operate using less power than non ULV CPUs, and as such it is also designed to generate less heat. More often than not, your CPU will throttle down (you most likely won't hit 3.0 GHz while playing Dolphin) since it will attempt to reduce heat first and foremost. So your CPU is not very well suited for Dolphin. While Skyward Sword is out of the question (unless you can play it in slo-mo), there may be a few other games that you're capable of running decently; what else do you plan on playing?