T410 or T530

Hi
I have a T410 under warranty
Due to performance and overheating issues that came up recently, the seller sugested to replace the machine to either sam T410 ot T530 with no cost.
This is manily a development laptop so the most imporatnt thing for me is smooth strong machine that can run simultaneously  Visual Studio / Eclipse, VMWare macine, browser with app. 10 tabs opened, outlook, music palyed from the web, plus some other application(s) that might run on the background.
The T410 I have, handled that pretty well until problem had begun, but the question is whether it is worthy to upgrade to the t530.
I understand that the T530 s a newer model but is it really better?
What are the main differences except for the screen size, which makes the T530 heavier?
T410 spec:
Core i5 520M
8G RAM,
Integrated intel graphics
T503 Spec:
Core i5 32100M
8G RAM,
Integrated intel graphics HW4000
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what makes it heavier, well the screen is larger and the whole case is larger, so that takes up the weight increase.
The i5-3210m is about 2 to 3 times faster than the i5-520m.
Also, you can upgrade the T530 to have a i7 Quad Core if you so wish. Then there is option of FHD LCD. Finally, the T530 can take 16 gigs of ram (2 x 8 gigs), and the hdd is SATAIII, you can also get a mSATA put in.
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    ~Paul
    Lenovo ThinkPad T410s - 2901CTO
    IBM ThinkPad T41p - 2373GGU
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    ~Paul
    Lenovo ThinkPad T410s - 2901CTO
    IBM ThinkPad T41p - 2373GGU

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