It's been sometime since I last looked in detail at laptop and computer part benchmarks so I can't really tell you a definite 'yes or no' for the machines you questioned.
For me the most important point in the game is to have lush physics. And I can "play" the game on both my laptops, an old "Core 2 Duo Sony Vaio" and an even older Toshiba one. Although I often get graphic bugs like dancing Esperanzas or blinking ship lights with that old graphics hardware.
If you like to enjoy the excellent graphics and the full detail of shadows, reflections and multiple camera views I guess you'd rather get a laptop with more than 3GB ram, i5 or better processor and a latest nvidia graphics card. Me, I wouldn't buy such a lap-monster basically because it gets overheated and the ventilation fans start to scream, disrupting the seagull voice and the Dover breeze. I would rather play SSE on a desktop on a HUGE monitor if I wanted to get the real feeling. I guess future games will be played on huge monitor arrays, oleds are cheap like toilet paper.
Still, desktops are rapidly moving out of fashion, So, I would compromise with a 3GB ram, i5 processor and latest nvidia graphics card laptop. But do not consider anything smaller than a 15" monitor unless you are a dedicated masochist.
Be sure your new laptop has a strong HDMI port for connecting to BIG monitors.
Take a look at the link below. I think those machines won't have a hard time running SSE (forget the apple).
http://www.e-shop.gr/search_per.phtml?category=%D6%CF%D1%C7%D4%CF%C9+%D5%D0%CF%CB%CF%C3%C9%D3%D4%C5%D3&filter-506=1&filter-146=1&filter-145=1&filter-507=1
