A:Answer I don't know much about the Minecraft game, so I downloaded and played it in demo mode, and it works just fine.
It does require Java Runtime Environment, which means that the game will only run in desktop mode, but that shouldn't make a difference.
I tried stress-testing the laptop by installing Borderlands 2 on it; the harddrive was the bottleneck. It takes a while for the game to load, and the same loading delay when entering different areas, but it can play the game, so I'm impressed.