Debating between Macbook 2.0 or the 2.3

I am a student heading into college and am debating about a laptop to help my studies while still performing a couple games. I do not know if I should spend the extra six-hundred dollars for the top line 15 inch Macbook pro. The games I would play would be simular to battlefield. I will want this to perform well on word and exel documents. I am accustomed to using a dell stationary computer with eight gigs of memory.
The question is will the top of the line Macbook Pro with the NVIDIA chip allow these processes, or is the benchmark model perform well in both aspects?

If your top priority is games, then the 'top of the line' MBP is for you.  It still will be mediocre performer in that respect. 
If your top priority is academics, then the base MBP will be more than ample for your studies.
Ciao.

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