It sounds like your issue might be a bad ribbon cable, connector, or some other easy fix. Getting the display working might be doable with reasonable effort. If not, you can make it a:
Minecraft (or any game you like) server.
Steam remote play host machine. Let the laptop do the processing and send the video signal to a lower-performance client.
Load movies onto an external drive. Load emulators onto the hard drive. Use it as a media PC and emulation station.
Video editing machine.
Either way, make sure whatever screen you hook up to it has at least a 60 hertz refresh rate.
If you stream, a lot of streamers use a second machine to record, manage the stream, run the webcam, etc. allowing their main machine to prioritize rendering the game; you could use it for that.
It sounds like your issue might be a bad ribbon cable, connector, or some other easy fix. Getting the display working might be doable with reasonable effort. If not, you can make it a:
Minecraft (or any game you like) server.
Steam remote play host machine. Let the laptop do the processing and send the video signal to a lower-performance client.
Load movies onto an external drive. Load emulators onto the hard drive. Use it as a media PC and emulation station.
Video editing machine.
Either way, make sure whatever screen you hook up to it has at least a 60 hertz refresh rate.
If you stream, a lot of streamers use a second machine to record, manage the stream, run the webcam, etc. allowing their main machine to prioritize rendering the game; you could use it for that.