I have a budget of around $150 and I have found a lot of laptops on Amazon for that price range but I have narrowed it down.
The dell latitude series - your average laptop not much too it but supposed to be pretty good for the price.
Acer c710-2411- I found this laptop very recently and haven't done as much research for this laptop as I have others
The mac book - the old ones are cheap enough and they get the job done plus I like the mac engine
Lenovo thinkpad - cheapest one and supposed to be good for the price
Basically I need a laptop that I can makes games on using game maker but isn't the biggest deal I do however need something that I can animate with and the macbook has imovie which my brother uses and is really good but also I need something I can write a book on which I can use any laptop to do. I mainly want to animate though which obviously makes the macbook the better choose but I want to make games with game maker and macbook doesn't have game maker… Anyways that's everything