Helping a friend in lockdown

Hello Reddit,

TL:DR I want to buy a friend in Canada a laptop under $400CAD but I don't know which stores / models to look at as I live in the UK. Can you help?

I was wondering if someone is able to help me help a friend whose got an absolute potato for a laptop. He wants to play with me and my friends some RTS titles, like Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, which aren't the most demanding games but his laptop can't handle it.

He's my best friend who lives in a very rural part of Canada by himself so his laptop is his life. He's not able to upgrade because of the uncertainty about his job due to coronavirus. This situation is really hitting him hard and we want to help to keep his mental health up.

I want to do a collection with a couple of other people and see if we can afford something that will allow him to play with us but there's a couple of issues and I wondered if you could help.

• He lives in Canada, we live in the UK. I don't know what shops are best to look at for laptops.

• The laptop doesn't need to be a gaming laptop but good enough to play age of empires DE. Anyone got a model they recommend that can handle that?

• It sadly has to be a laptop because he is moving shortly to the US (I'd get him a desktops otherwise)

• Our budget is extremely tight ($400CAD) and I don't know if there's something out there within our price range.

• Happy to buy used/refurbished if they deliver. (He's about 3 hours from the nearest very small town).

Any help you wonderful people can share would be great.