The correct answer is there are no good gaming laptops. Unless you absolutely, positively need to be playing games on the go at high-ish settings and a high resolution, you're just pissing away money on something that's expensive, hot, heavy, has awful battery life and will be largely obsolete within 18-24 months. A more mid-range, better all-around laptop like the Dell XPS 15 (with i7 and GT540M upgrades) or HP Envy 14 will be a better choice for the majority of users, or even a mini-ITX/mATX budget gaming desktop+netbook/thin-and-light laptop can provide better value and better fit your needs.
That said, i7 and 560M are the way to go. The i7 will turbo up enough that clockspeed won't be an issue on two cores, and the quad-core performance will be useful in other titles and probably let you squeeze some more life out of your laptop. On the GPU-side the 470M might be a bit more powerful, but I'd assume it'll be significantly more expensive relative to the performance gains and the 560M has Optimus, meaning your battery will be actually provide some genuine portability instead of the usual glorified UPS you get with gaming laptops.
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