Can the W520 Run the Occasional Game?

Hello Everybody,
One thing that I have been wondering about a workstation laptop such as the W520 is whether it can run a game such as Minecraft smoothly.
Don't get me wrong, I realize that the W520 is not a gaming machine, but since it has such high hardware specifications, I would assume that it would be able to handle the occasional game such as Minecraft. A $600 laptop can run it moderately well. I mainly use Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop but I like to have fun every once in a while.
Some places say that a game such as Minecraft runs okay on the W520 while others say that it's terrible. I feel that the variations are due to different steps taken.
Minecraft is a Java program, and my 5 year old desktop runs it flawlessly on a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo with a NVIDIA 9500 GT.
What's your take? Can the 2000M handle it? Or should I not expect to run something like this well?
W520 4270CTO / Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit / NVIDIA Quadro 1000M / 8 GB DDR3 RAM / 1080p Display / 500gb 7200 rpm HD / Intel Core i7 2720QM / BIOS 1.39
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Hi all
To add on, L4D2 graphic can be max out and run smoothly even in Quadro 1000M.
Cheers 
Peter
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