Mac is Best? I heard.
I heard a Mac is best for playing Sims 3, especially because of the 64-bit version. Is this true? I heard Newer Macs with Apple Silicon (M-series chips) and "Based on user experiences, the best M...
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DivinylsFan It's nice to know that AI is still significantly behind on some subjects. Of course, within the Mac category overall, the ARM models (M1 and newer) are much better than the older Intel models, but that's not difficult to figure out.
I do think extra cooling would be useful here, but you might also want to look for laptops with processors that kick off less heat in general. It's hard to make generalizations these days because some of the newest Intel and AMD CPUs are extremely efficient, but even slightly older ones are not, and the newest ones are not always available. The TDP is the CPU's maximum power, in watts, but that doesn't tell the whole story since the processor doesn't necessarily generate all that heat all the time. So check online reviews for the processor(s) alone and for the laptop(s) in question.
In terms of performance, any modern dedicated graphics card will be sufficient. For the processor, the useful benchmarks are single-core and dual-core performance; it doesn't matter how many cores you get (beyond four), only how fast they run. Check a few different sites since some are heavily biased towards one manufacturer or the other.
My laptop is mostly for my university tasks.
My old desktop computer that broke was an Acer Aspire TC 280, which I bought in 2017. It played the game really well with all the expansions and stuff packs I have now, for nearly 8 years, until finally about 6 months ago, the paste dried out from overheating. Luke the computer guy and I made a backup on an external HD just in time before it never started up again. So now I've been saving up for a new desktop computer to replace that, while making do with this laptop, which is a HP from around 2020, it can't run Windows 11 and is quite limited with playing Sims 3. I should be putting it back to its original uni-stuff only use.
My son (I am old enough to have a fully grown, been to university himself, one of those ... ) recommended something with extra fans, and he found a couple of builds with his favourite retailer, but the quote he got expired, and the Black Friday sales are soon anyway. I asked the googly AI for a recommendation and one of the things it said was the thing about the Mac computers and the 64-bit scenario.
So it seems my son's recommendations were probably the best already. A new desktop, similar but better than the old one, and keep my HP laptop for university as it is. I didn't and don't know if the laptop could be upgraded anyway.
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