I want a comfortably small laptop running Windows for playing games in the coziness of my bed without having to destroy my back and neck at my desktop. I don't know what the price range would be but people've told me even low-end notebooks from around 2012 would suffice (and something older would probably play a great role in lowering price). I'd prefer something close to $100 at most but I'd imagine even this sort of thing isn't quite so cheap.
To give an idea of what level of performance I need I'm only interested in playing games like anything made in RPG Maker 2003 (Yume Nikki for example), freeware Cave Story, OneShot, Undertale, Baba is You, and really old FPS's like Quake. My preferable limit for running things well would be Source 1 engine games, but if that's too out of my range then the limit would be something like Morrowind/Unreal.
Battery life should be at least decent (5-6 hours?) since I don't plan to move it away from an outlet too much. Storage size being really small is zero issue considering the games I listed. I'd prefer Windows 7 installed but I'm fine with 8 or 10. My vastly preferred resolutions are be 1920x1080p or 1280x1024p (very few of what I'm looking to play uses 16:9, in fact everything I listed besides Baba is You is 5:4).
Lastly, it needs to not have applications like Steam or Discord make it chug. Thank you to anyone who tries to help, I'll finally be able to stop having to settle for buying these kinds of games on the Switch.
Edit: At least 4GB of RAM
To give an idea of what level of performance I need I'm only interested in playing games like anything made in RPG Maker 2003 (Yume Nikki for example), freeware Cave Story, OneShot, Undertale, Baba is You, and really old FPS's like Quake. My preferable limit for running things well would be Source 1 engine games, but if that's too out of my range then the limit would be something like Morrowind/Unreal.
Battery life should be at least decent (5-6 hours?) since I don't plan to move it away from an outlet too much. Storage size being really small is zero issue considering the games I listed. I'd prefer Windows 7 installed but I'm fine with 8 or 10. My vastly preferred resolutions are be 1920x1080p or 1280x1024p (very few of what I'm looking to play uses 16:9, in fact everything I listed besides Baba is You is 5:4).
Lastly, it needs to not have applications like Steam or Discord make it chug. Thank you to anyone who tries to help, I'll finally be able to stop having to settle for buying these kinds of games on the Switch.
Edit: At least 4GB of RAM
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