Any idea on what laptop to get around the £500(<) range that

Second-hand.

>>18631445
Build a desktop. Laptops are a meme.

"Gaming" laptops are a joke. Cheap hardware marked up far beyond it's value.

Don't be a lazy faggot and get good value for your money by building or asking someone else to build a desktop for you. Any mouthbreather with functioning hands and access to the internet can could do it following a Youtube tutorial. 1-2 hours tops for you first build. It's not hard.

Helpful links for dummies:
http://www.logicalincrements.com/
https://pcpartpicker.com/

>>18631445
Go with an MSI or an ASUS. Search on Amazon and Newegg. And fuck this guy above me. If you want a laptop get a laptop. Don't let other people tell you what to get.

There is nothing wrong with gaming laptops in modern times. A few years back, it's true that you could never get the same quality in a laptop that you could on a desktop, but now the playing field is a bit more even and retards can't accept times are changing and their extra efforts towards building computers is rendered meaningless. If you have to move or move your computer around a lot, a laptop is a fine choice.

That being said, banished is such a low demanding game, you probably can get away with like a $300 laptop and play it. Just don't expect to run Witcher 3 or something

>>18631665
Fuck off you faggot. It's an objective fact that the amount of power you get building a PC is far greater than you're going to get buying a laptop or prebuilt at the same time.

You're literally burning money on subpar hardware if you buy into this meme. You can spend $500 dollars on a laptop that can barely run games at all, or use that money to build a computer than can handle most modern games at modest settings at solid framerates.

Also, there literally does not exist a $300 laptop on the planet that can run mordern games acceptable. Even the relatively tame ones OP is looking at.

>>18631698
But can you move a computer?
Check and mate.

>>18631445
get a used thinkpad
http://ktgee.net/post/49423737148/thinkpad-guide