Cheap laptop help

So my old Lenovo is starting to give up the ghost - making awful grinding noises and running slow and hot and all that. So far, I've always managed to coax it live longer through extensive cleaning and defrag and so on, but I'm afraid that it's not going to live much longer.

Thus, I'm asking fellow Taleworldians for hints&tips getting a new (or used) laptop cheaply. My price range would be between £200 and £300 and I'd like to have at least 4gb RAM and a decent graphics - though I assume that integrated GPU is my only option. 1tb of HDD would be a nice bonus if it doesn't break the bank.

Apparently the Intel HD 4000 is a pretty decent chip when it comes to integrated stuff but the laptop with that I found in a quick Amazon browse only had 1.8 ghz CPU or lower and that sounds pretty low. Are there other websites that offer better deals and free/cheap delivery inside the UK?

Basically, I need a laptop for school work but being able to watch movies and play older games is a must. I don't care about shooters or Skyrim but if Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun Returns (for example) would run nicely, that'd be great. And Paradox games, of course. Divinity: Original Sin is just waiting in my GoG account for this upgrade.

My old specs:
Any upgrade to those is a must.

If you only want a small increase over your current system, literally anything will do. The 140M is one of the weakest GPUs scoring only a 95 on this benchmark site: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/midlow_range_gpus.html

You basically have 2 options:

Intel CPU + Intel HD graphics. Better processor, weaker GPU.
AMD APU - weaker processor, stronger GPU.

Both will be a huge upgrade in terms of GPU power, and for £200-£300 you can easily get 4GB of RAM.

Here's a Lenovo just barely above £300 that would vastly outpower your old system while maintaining all of your conditions: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834317620
And here's an HP with the AMD solution for the same price: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA29P20R3372

Don't be too concerned about low clock rates. Many modern processors have a way to "turbo" their speed when below heat and power consumption marks, increasing their clock rates to potentially much higher levels. They also can do more with less GHz, especially over a chip as old as a Core 2 Duo.

Divinity: Original Sin has some pretty steep requirements for a budget laptop, but you should be able to run it on either of the above systems. Low framerate isn't all that much of an issue anyways since it's a turn based game.

Thanks!

I've been browsing further and annoyingly often the cheap-end laptops are only capable of 1366x768 resolution. Which is weird because this piece of **** can do 1280x800. I was hoping that even budget laptops would now be able to get 1440x900 or 1280x1024 or something like that.

EDIT: looks like I spoke too soon. I found this one that seems perfect - except that it only has 2 USB ports:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-X551CA-15-6-inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B00FC55UX0/ref=psdc1_t1_B00HR6U4DS_B00FC55UX0

There is only about £20-30 price difference between the Celeron and Core i3 versions, so I think I should definitely go with the Core as it's much more powerful.

The issue is a change in the standard aspect ratio for computer monitors. We used to use 4:3 or 16:10 but now the standard is 16:9. This makes it wider at the cost of height.

I don't know if you'll be able to find anything other than a 16:9 screen, to be honest. At least not at your price. A quick search shows the cheapest 1440x900 is $1,200. 1280x1024 isn't even an option.

Here's a 1600x900 Dell about the same price as the above. The processor is one step below to compensate for the increased cost of the monitor, I suppose. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3FA2035805

Yeah, turns out that while the Intel HD 4000 can do up to 1920 x 1080 resolution, the screen on that Acer can't go higher than 1366 x 768.

Back to the drawing board.