Laptop recs-- Legion by Lenovo?
Wow, I posted here about 5 years ago searching for a laptop... how time flies! That laptop has served me well but is over 6.5 years old now, and I really need to upgrade. I know desktops offer better ...
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Given your preferences, I think that's about as good a laptop as you're going to find. While there are plenty of equivalent gaming laptops that look like gaming laptops, and a few more subtle models with weaker hardware or lower ratings, the Legion line is really the only one in your price range that has quality components and is built well. The one thing I would say about this model is that its battery life won't be great: its processor doesn't have an integrated graphics chip, meaning the dedicated card would be carrying the workload the whole time, and draining the battery faster than an integrated chip would.
This may not matter to you, but if it does, this model is an alternative:
https://www.newegg.com/phantom-black-lenovo-legion-5-15imh05h-81y600p3cf-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834645826
Its graphics card is a few percentage points slower but still overkill for Sims 3; it has only 8 GB RAM instead of 12, but that could be upgraded easily enough. It's also a little newer, which matters in the sense that Lenovo is likely to support it (as in, new drivers and other support software) for a bit longer, although that's not guaranteed.
Other than that, I didn't see anything worth mentioning on the half dozen sites I checked. That's not surprising: laptop manufacturers are switching over to 30-series GPUs and cleaning out old inventory. But you don't need a 3060 to play Sims 3, and a 3050 is actually slower than a 2060 or even a 1660 ti, not to mention it's currently the same price or higher.
This may not matter to you, but if it does, this model is an alternative:
https://www.newegg.com/phantom-black-lenovo-legion-5-15imh05h-81y600p3cf-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834645826
Its graphics card is a few percentage points slower but still overkill for Sims 3; it has only 8 GB RAM instead of 12, but that could be upgraded easily enough. It's also a little newer, which matters in the sense that Lenovo is likely to support it (as in, new drivers and other support software) for a bit longer, although that's not guaranteed.
Other than that, I didn't see anything worth mentioning on the half dozen sites I checked. That's not surprising: laptop manufacturers are switching over to 30-series GPUs and cleaning out old inventory. But you don't need a 3060 to play Sims 3, and a 3050 is actually slower than a 2060 or even a 1660 ti, not to mention it's currently the same price or higher.
