Will This Computer Play The Sims 3?
This is for my friend who wants to buy a laptop to play The Sims 3 at medium-high settings. Will it run? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-thinkpad-2-in-1-14-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-...
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Not that you need my approval (or anyone else's), but yes it sounds like you have thought this over properly and you are able to justify the added expense of a stronger GPU than TS3 in particular can really take advantage of. At the very least you won't have to keep asking yourself if something you are running might be running better on a 1070 if only you had one.
I will add though that future-proofing a laptop at the time of purchase only makes sense in a limited way. The average expected lifespan of a laptop, depending on usage patterns and whether it is mostly stationary or gets moved/carried around a lot, is 3-5 years. Some will of course get longer usage out of theirs, but we can't really plan for further ahead than that. Hardware does not improve with age, actually it begins to degrade (albeit so slowly in the beginning that we can't see it) from the first time we switch the thing on. So while TS3 is a known constant we can plan for now, and we can guess more or less what TS4 is going to do over the next 2-3 years, we can't really say with any degree of certainty that a device we acquire now will still be running let alone suitable for a game/product that won't be released until five or more years down the road.
Desktops generally last longer than laptops, but the potential for future obsolescence if not mechanical failure is still there and pretty much the same.
I will add though that future-proofing a laptop at the time of purchase only makes sense in a limited way. The average expected lifespan of a laptop, depending on usage patterns and whether it is mostly stationary or gets moved/carried around a lot, is 3-5 years. Some will of course get longer usage out of theirs, but we can't really plan for further ahead than that. Hardware does not improve with age, actually it begins to degrade (albeit so slowly in the beginning that we can't see it) from the first time we switch the thing on. So while TS3 is a known constant we can plan for now, and we can guess more or less what TS4 is going to do over the next 2-3 years, we can't really say with any degree of certainty that a device we acquire now will still be running let alone suitable for a game/product that won't be released until five or more years down the road.
Desktops generally last longer than laptops, but the potential for future obsolescence if not mechanical failure is still there and pretty much the same.
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