~£500 Laptop for programming; game development and web development, possible?

[AreYouReady?]

Hi guys

Just curious if anyone knows the kind of spec I should be looking for in a laptop so I can do some programming for both games and web that would be around £500?

I've looked on places like Nova-tech (banned word? Take out hyphen) but I'm not sure if around the £500 price tag they'd be powerful enough?

The gaming ones look good but most are around the 1k mark, which if you guys think it would be a better investment to get a gaming laptop then I'd save up and get a gaming one instead, but if one of the business ones are able to do the job then that'd be ideal.

Here are the cheaper business ones (mainly around 700):

https://www.********.co.uk/laptop/business/

And the gaming ones (mainly around 1k):

https://www.********.co.uk/laptop/gaming/

The kind of games I'd be developing are 2d and 3d, both probably with the Unity engine or Unreal engine, which I appreciate do need a powerful system to run depending on the quality of the games' graphics.

There is also a custom section on there so if anyone is good at selecting custom parts could come up with a good spec that'd be great!

Thanks for reading.

 

[kurosagi01]

Programming is all CPU and memory intensive workload, you can get away with dual core and 8GB ram perfectly fine but I would recommend at least quad core and 16GB ram setup with SSD to help improve build time etc.
Not expert in game development field but you will probably need at least a mid-range+ in consumer grade GPU at least.