i cba reading all thats goin on but dolphin on laptop for $1200 dollars or so is possible
my laptop is i5 2430m,6gb.nvidia gt540m, and xenoblade works fine, sometimes crash. but i think you should get better cpu, you want to run the games at full fps because its not acceptable playing a game at less than 95% its normal speed. xenblade is fine but other games, pandora's tower, mh tri, run fine until its slightly busy, then fps drops or stutters and it sucks.
my laptop is i5 2430m,6gb.nvidia gt540m, and xenoblade works fine, sometimes crash. but i think you should get better cpu, you want to run the games at full fps because its not acceptable playing a game at less than 95% its normal speed. xenblade is fine but other games, pandora's tower, mh tri, run fine until its slightly busy, then fps drops or stutters and it sucks.