I have T410S, advice in upgrading monitor

I have a T410S with the stock, motherboard videocard.
I want to ugrade monitors and have been eyeing those extremely nice 27 inch 2560-by-1440 resolution monitors.
But my question is will I be wasting my money because of the hardware limitations of my laptop?
If so, what would you recommend?
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1) Excuse the ignorant question but how would you connect the T410s to an external monitor? The T410s has a DisplayPort port, but what if the monitor does not have a DisplayPort port but an HDMI port?
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3) And lastly, take a look at this link...
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=19C791A03AF24034A0011B825513BCED&tabname=Gallery
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Thank you, lead_org. You've been very helpful. Last 2 questions hopefully.
1) Regarding the use of DisplayPort on the Mini Dock Plus, since DisplayPort transmits audio as well as video (unlike the old style VGA which only sent video), if I connected the Mini Dock Plus to the HDMI port of my monitor (using a DP-to-HDMI adapter of course) would I lose audio out coming out of the green miniplug port on the mini dock, since the system might assume I want all audio to go through the DisplayPort cable? I have seperate external speakers I want to use and not the ones on the monitor.
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