You know, it's complicated.

I bought that laptop 4 years ago and paid below $300. I was switching from something much older (and even bought as second-hand) and it was far more then I expected. I'm using lightweight Linux distros and for office apps, simple scripts development, education, text writing, even working on photos in Darktable it was perfectly fine.

The problem is that I didn't realized it is possible to play games easily with Linux. I discovered that later and was extremely surprised. Now I'd rather buy something with graphic card on board, but I like classics, still have huge backlog so no hurry for me ;)

As I have 10-15 years gap in gaming (and from before that period I have also many titles I couldn't afford before), "new releases" has quite specific meaning for me. E.g. I considered Bloodlines or Witcher quite modern and pretty games for my own standards :D

I play some games released in a last few years (as Vaporum, Tacoma, Virginia recently), there is a lot of nicely optimized indie titles, so it's not always obvious for me, if a particular game is available for me or am I kidding... ;)