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Budget gamer here. Looking to buy a laptop.
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Truthfully I wouldn't put budget and gaming laptop together.
Go for a desktop (especially if you're making it yourself). Go for a refurbished or used premium laptop. Go for a steam deck. Go for a Chromebook and use the money on GeForce NOW. Go for an Xbox or a PlayStation.
Or save your money...
Laptops on the budget end are filled with poorly designed chassis that never seem to be able to cool the hardware leading to premature hardware failure and thermal throttling. It's also super common to run into other cheap components that fail like the keyboard switches.
This can be true even in "expensive" computers like Alienware. You either want a beefy thick workstation-like gaming laptop or you want something like a Dell XPS where the chassis and cooling are getting a lot of extra attention, and the hardware isn't put in cheap plastic and overspeced to "wow" you with an impossible combination of "thin" and "powerful."