Have you considered not doing what you’re asking and instead doing what only one person in the thread so far has suggested and getting a simple cheap old laptop and a steam deck or desktop pc?

If you’re hard on shit you’re gonna fuck up the laptop. It’s okay, I am that way too and that’s why learned how to fix em.

Don’t spend a bunch of money on something you’re gonna break.

“But farting_weedman, if I don’t spend a bunch of money I won’t be able to play video games!”

I know.

By not spending all your money on a laptop which you’re much more likely to break, you have 75-80% of your money left to buy something you can game on.

Like a steam deck or some psychogamers 2-3 year old build.

So what should you buy?

I like the t480 thinkpad. It will work fine for your needs and can accommodate a decent amount of ram and storage. Shop around, but you can get a goodass laptop for like ~$200.

Now you can either get a steam deck, the easy and “smart” choice, or you can start trying to figure out what parts you can pick out of the local dump for free to maximize the amount of your remaining $800 you can spend on a video card.

There’s much more capable people at combing pcpartpicker on this site, but I will leave you with this one thing: reduce your target resolution and frame rate to maximize your dollar.