Over the years, Minecraft has grown into a pretty demanding game. So if you don’t have the right kind of hardware, you won’t be able to run it properly.
The devs recommend that the PC game is best experienced on a machine with either the Intel i7-6500U or the AMD A8-6600K CPU. Along with this, you will also need an NVIDIA GeForce 940M or an AMD Radeon HD 8570D GPU.
This kind of setup combined with 8GB worth of RAM will allow the game to run at its highest potential.
As for the minimum requirements, they include the Intel Celeron J4105 or the AMD FX-4100 CPU. You can combine that with Intel HD Graphics 4000 or the AMD Radeon R5 GPU and 4GB of RAM to check off listed hardware needed to play Minecraft.
Keep in mind that Windows 10 or higher is necessary if you wish to play the Bedrock Edition of the game. It does not run on MacOS. The Java version works with Windows 7 or later and Mac 10.14.5 Mojave or higher.