Re: Laptop for the sims 4?
@und3rc0v3r_g0th It's too early to be sure how an M2 chip would run Sims 4. It should handle the game fine, in fact pretty well, since this chip is somewhat faster in graphics processing than the M1, but that would be a lot of money to spend without confirmation.
For Windows laptops, first is the easy part. Any built-in webcam you'd get would be somewhere between mediocre and terrible, with most of them at least qualifying as bad. Some high-end laptops have good cameras, but that's the exception; for the rest, it's too expensive and also a significant engineering problem to try to create a decent camera that fits into a laptop chassis. As an example, a high-end laptop might have a two-megapixel camera, and a mid-range laptop will probably have a camera that's one megapixel or less. In contrast, a good camera in a phone will be more like eight. It's not a perfectly linear comparison, but there's only so much a computer can do with such little data, relatively speaking.
Of the laptops with good hardware that are priced below the gaming laptops I listed, this one has the best webcam, as far as I can tell. It captures in 1080p rather than the 720p of the others, and its reviews say the camera is okay. The graphics chip is in the same performance category as the others here: medium-high graphics settings should be absolutely fine, maybe high settings depending on your playstyle and preferences.
Reviews for this one say its camera is decent too, at least for a laptop. Its graphics chip is a little faster than the chip in the one above. Its screen is also higher-resolution and somewhat taller than the others, with a 3:2 rather than 16:9 aspect ratio.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1617646-REG/acer_nx_a4kaa_003_swift_3_i7_1165g7_8gb.html
In case you want more options, these all have the same graphics chip (about the same speed as the first one above), RAM, and storage; I'm only listing options with 500 GB, since you can afford it and you said you want to make sure you have enough. So if you don't like either of the above options, any of them would be fine. The main differences are screen size and aesthetics.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/274981158
https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/497014617
https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/991710002
And these two are the same laptop except for the processor: the first has the same CPU as the first Dell laptop I listed, and the second has an upgraded CPU that's roughly equivalent to the one in the Acer:
If you're not worried about squeezing every bit of gaming performance out of your laptop, it's totally reasonable to choose based on whatever other criteria matter to you, even just the way these look. They're all going to give you a play experience in the same general range anyway.
