my laptop is a piece of crap, i don't even bother using it anymore to seriously game (except for a few fps's and mmorpg's that are only on the comp)
everything else, like cod, re, skyrim, and mc, I use 360.
As far as regular use, it runs pretty gewd. You should try defragging your hard drive and maybe running CCleaner. That always works for me, especially if I uninstall a bunch of useless programs.