I’m looking for a good, reliable laptop for school work and hopefully the capabilities to run video games without that being it’s soul purpose like a gaming laptop, any recommendations?
I have had really good luck with the AMD Ryzen cpus. I got a Lenovo Ideapad 5 last year with a Ryzen 7 5700. The new version is Ryzen 7 7730u. It has some nice speed and good battery efficiency. It can definitely work with games like Minecraft. So, perhaps getting a good refurbished model from Dell, Lenovo, Asus would be solid. Getting a new laptop and new version of the 7 should not be terrible on price. Here I saw the new Ryzen 7 in some of the HP Pavilions and Asus Vivobooks.
The Ryzen 5 5500u is really snappy too. So, any quality budget item should run well with that. Here, I saw Acer had a good Aspire 3 with this processor.