That's okay, I don't really need catnip right now, I have this whole pile of crash dumps and... never mind.
@magrgu16 I answered you on the AHQ site, but in case you haven't seen that yet, you've found an excellent computer for the price. The same laptop from Best Buy is almost $100 more, and in the last few months or so, I haven't seen any other models with an Nvidia 1650 on sale for less than about $650, at least not new. So this one would be a very good option.
It does have only a small hard drive, which should be fine if the laptop is only for Sims 3 and apps that don't take much storage, e.g. browsers and music players. If you want more storage than that though, the Acer is still probably the best option—you could buy a second hard drive separately and still save money over the available laptops with more storage. Acer makes it relatively easy to add memory or a second hard drive too; it shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
Depending on your preferences, you could get a 500 GB SATA solid state drive for $50, a 500 GB NVMe SSD (3-6 times faster) for $60, or a 2.5" 1 TB HDD (mechanical drive) for $45. Surprisingly, the Acer has both a free M.2 slot and an empty 2.5" drive bay; any hard drive of the appropriate form factor would fit. For example:
2.5" SATA SSD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PGC3JKQ
M.2 NVMe SSD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J2WBKXF
2.5" HDD (5400 RPM): https://www.adorama.com/sest1000lm48.html
Sims 3 (and pretty much any other game out there) won't benefit from being installed on an NVMe SSD rather than a SATA SSD, although it will load much faster on an SSD than an HDD. So if your goal is to install games on the secondary drive, it's better to get some kind of SSD. But you don't have to upgrade right away; you can wait until you're running low on storage, when you have a better idea of what the purpose of the second drive would be.
