How to get Sims 2 back in my life? *Solved-Got Sims 2 back in my life*

Same here. I fortunately have the Ultimate Collection on Origin, but it runs very well on my $600 HP Pavillion x360 laptop that I got 2 years ago. The only problem I see you having is that laptops these days no longer have CD drives so if you do get the laptop, you will most likely have to also invest in an external CD drive to run the game.

I am not sure about Macs but I think they may come with the Super Collection in the Mac App Store. You will have to look for that if you don't want physical CD's.