The Sims 3, new MBP?

Hi, I'm about to purchase a 2011 MacBook Pro, w/ Lion obviously. Does anybody here have any experience playing The Sims 3 on the notebook, does it play well? It will be a 15" 2.3ghz i7 8GB , 500GB 7200rpm. Can somebody with those exact or lower specs answer please? :Blushing:must be 2011 model though! I'm not wanting to install any dual boot software.

I've searched the the thread honestly all that came up was something about "Recent games that have come out for the OS". Forgive me in advance for not searching efficiently.