Laptop to play the sims3 in 2024
Hey guys
I’ve been looking at getting a laptop which will allow me to run The Sims 3 - but I’m also a keen singer/songwriter so likely wanting one that has a good cam and enough ports to manage what I’m looking to do. Many people have said to get a basic astus as it will handle the sims but when considering music and it being on windows 11 I’m not really sure of the best value. I’m in Australia so here are the below laptops I’m considering 🙂
I have seen Dell/Asus/Lenovo/MSI and I’m genuinely curious, as they all seem to run similar graphics cards, similar cpu, similar SSD and range between $1,000-$1,500. As mentioned I’d want something that was also capable of handling music software so I’m now also curious about a Mac, but I know there have been troubles with them and running the sims. Open to your thoughts on the needed specs!
I also need to run a word suite and be able to make presentations aligning to any future work, so I’m guessing space will likely be of utmost importance to me, where I can still run games.
@Julzmusic All the laptops you've linked would run Sims 3, all packs included, on ultra graphics settings, minus the two (water and high-detail lots) that need to be turned down to lower the stress on the game engine. They'd all need a workaround to get the game running at all:
These are also all overpriced for their hardware, from what I remember of the Australian market, and that's unsurprising given that I also remember JB Hi-Fi products being more expensive than their counterparts elsewhere. So if you'd like me to find some other suggestions, just let me know where you'd be willing to shop.
In terms of the hardware itself, you'd be getting the same components regardless of who manufactures the laptop. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia sell the same chips to everyone, and there's little difference among the various RAM and SSD products. The important differences here, aside from external details like screen size or keyboard layout, are about how the laptop manufacturers tune their machines, for example some might have less-than-ideal cooling and therefore throttle earlier or more severely under heavy load. But you're looking at a few percentage points worth of difference at most, not nearly the gap between, say, an Nvidia RTX 3050 and a 3060.
As far as Macs go, they're great for a lot of things, but not for Sims 3. The 64-bit Mac version has extra problems on top of the usual ones, and it's also somewhat choppy compared to the Windows version and to how it should run on that level of hardware. I wouldn't say absolutely don't get a Mac if it's perfect for everything else you want to do—you could still play Sims 3, after all—only that if a Windows PC works for your other purposes, that's the clear better choice for Sims 3 as well.
