Visualization on a laptop

Hello,
My school has bought discovery studio for numerous research groups in my school.
I'm currently doing some research regarding to some enzymes, and have a suspected inhibitor.
So my teacher said that i can try to use DS to visualize the interaction between the enzyme and the suspected inhibitor(from the overview).
I think the school runs DS in one of our computing clusters, and the research groups are getting the client software.
My problem is that i'm going to buy a new laptop, however, probably not be able to buy the ones with NVIDIA QuadroFX graphic card.
Is a NVIDIA 8400M-GS be able to do the visualization, or it'll be really slow or completely crashed??

thanks a lot.