After it went from IBM to China, its bit hit and miss with those things. My Thinkpad X1 Carbon had broken keyboard and broken battery during first few years.

I start playing with blender earlier with no gpu just i5 8700 cpu .. totally cannot use at all ..

gave up and upgrade this year with 2060 12GB and use the same i5 8700 .. 32GB ram .. yes all 8th gen budget stuff , no money 

all good with blender and using it also for AI stable diffusion ..
Drawing & Animation - using krita all not issue without gpu

3D and AI - must have good gpu with more ram 8GB or > ; rendering will need 16GB DDR to 32GB depending on object you load
My advice get a dekstop liao .. or prepare to buy gaming laptop to run the rendering and hear the fan go bbbbuuuuurrrrrrrrrr