Big waste of money, and if someone tells me I am wrong... I am surely not. You cant hardly play anything on a $300 laptop. You will be able to play minecraft, but good luck getting over 50 fps with a $300 laptop. Even though the technology has gotten way better it is still not even worth it to pay that less. If you don't mind having a desktop , I suggest paying $600 for a gaming computer. When there is a sale going on. Best options, I have built about 6 desktops for people in the past year and I spend about $500-$1500 on them, depending on their budget I made a nice desktop that could actually run about 80 fps on monder warefare 2 with explosions going on. I recommend not getting a laptop, total waste of money unless you are spending as I said before 1k+. They are just slow when you are trying to do a lot at once, or playing a heavy game. If you can somehow spend about $800 on a laptop then that would be your only bet, but a lot of companies put a high price for crap parts. Also don't ever get an alienware...