Hey there,
What is the primary purpose for the laptop? Gaming?
Newer games or online games won't be my priority on the laptop. Mostly emulation gaming.Can you link the exact model?
The first thing I'd say is, for that price you can rest assured you are only getting 8gb ram. This is not enough for entry level gaming, even though the GPU is okay for 1080p gaming. You will have to add another 8gb ram, just so it won't stutter when you try and play any games. Specially multiplayer online games.
For emulation it will do fine (depending on the CPU), but again ram will be a factor.