My husband works for a computer repair shop, and has had an HP laptop before. General consensus- get a Dell. HP's are rather prone to break, and they've had some major design flaws that they simply didn't care about.
It looks like you're wanting to get something older that you can just play around with- You could probably get what you want cheaper if you shop around a bit (check places like overstock.com, newegg.com, etc).
Also, the minimum requirements of a game generally mean what the computer has to have so that the game won't instantly lock up the second it loads. It doesn't mean it's going to look good or get more than 5fps.
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