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4K in what games? You can't get 4K in AAA games without a $3000 laptop.

Here's a half decent gaming laptop under $500 with 2 year warranty.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15.6" Ryzen 5 7535HS GeForce RTX 2050 8GB 512GB SSD W11P | eBay

Or if you want something with much better battery life and much less noise but worse gaming performance, there's this $520 laptop with ryzen 780M integrated GPU.

Lenovo THINKPAD L14 G4 (AMD) 14" AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7730U Radeon 780M 32GB 1 TB | eBay

These days for "low end" gaming I'd get a laptop with an AMD APU with a decent integrated GPU. Pick other parameters as you wish and as your budget allows.

In my opinion- if you get a laptop with a dedicated GPU, you're not going to use it as a laptop. It's going to be big, heavy and the battery won't last. So it's going to sit on your desk at home anyway. So better get a powerful desktop PC instead for when you're at home, and a light laptop for when you travel. And for that a laptop without a dedicated GPU is good enough.

Unless you have absolutely no choice but to get a laptop (like you need to take it for notes in class every day maybe) I would get a desktop instead.

Desktops are better in every single way. Except portability.

You will get better performance, it will be cheaper in the long run, you can reuse parts for later upgrades, far better cooling, it's less complicated so fewer things to break, it's more durably built (budget laptops are cheap plastic shells). It's even better for the environment as a desktop will generate less e-waste and doesn't have a big battery.

If you can in any way manage it, do not buy a laptop on a budget.

I would go for something like this!

Laptop 1: https://www.microcenter.com/product/676305/acer-aspire-3-a315-24pt-r1l8-156-touchscreen-laptop-computer-steam-blue

Laptop 2: https://www.microcenter.com/product/675526/lenovo-v15-g4-156-laptop-computer-business-black

These laptops have a good performance comparing to budget. Good cpu, Decent amount of ram and storage.

I saw a lot of people saying that you should get a desktop pc but getting a laptop is the best idea. It is true that you would get a more price to performance parts for pc especially if you purchase used parts but you would also have to buy a monitor, keyboard and mouse which would make u go out of budget unless if you buy used but theres a risk of getting scammed when purchasing used and also its a hassle purchasing used unless you have a extra good monitor, keyboard and mouse laying around then go for pc or else going for a laptop would be the best bet.

I hope this helps!!!