Looking to buy new laptop. Please help recommend something.

[SpaceTek]

Budget (including currency): $1500-$2000 Aus

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Basic gaming (Minecraft, MMO's) general office work.

Other details Upgrading from ASUS ROG G74s(2011). Looking for more portability and battery life with better graphics.  Also want to be able to use usbC dock (Not thunderbolt but happy to have this on the laptop).  I am waning to go with a 13-15" screen.

 

[Boomy Beatle]

Given your use case and desired upgrades, some kind of thin-and-light would be perfect. The Dell XPS line is highly praised and should easily fit into your budget if you spec it out well enough. They can come with lower-end GPUs, they're lightweight yet well-built, and they're pretty much designed to be docked. I'd recommend getting 16GB of RAM, although that's a personal preference of mine. 8GB has essentially become "bare minimum" in my eyes. Don't go over though, because at that point, you're wasting money considering your workload.

[da na]

Amazon.com: ASUS VivoBook F412DA 14" Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 - 1080p 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB SATA Solid State Drive Backlit Chiclet Keyboard: Computers & Accessories

I would recommend this one, it's a decent laptop for the price.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-IPS-Type-i5-10300H-Keyboard-FX706LI-ES5/dp/B08ZLC661T/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=gaming+laptop&qid=1625100533&sr=8-4

And this one for a bit more that will perform significantly better.