Laptop to play the sims3 in 2024
@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.
