Which laptop is appropriate for The sims 3 nowadays?

@Beth1346790  I've looked recently for a couple other players in the U.K., and the cheapest laptop that would run TS3 on the highest settings costs £600.  The problem is, below a certain level of hardware, performance drops off dramatically.  The new low-end graphics cards should be fine for TS3, and they are fine for similar games, but people who have actually tried to play with them almost invariably report significant lag, stutter, and/or an inability to run the more demanding expansion packs at all.  (Those would be Pets, Seasons, then Into the Future and Isla Paradiso.)  So there really is a floor on what you can buy, and what you can spend, on the computer.

For reference, this is the model I found.  It has a good enough processor and graphics card and plenty of storage on the large HDD.  Asus makes great gaming laptops, even at the entry level.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-FX505DY-BQ008T-Bezel-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B07MWD7SNN?th=1

You're right that you wouldn't want a Mac—the models that can properly run TS3 cost over £2000.  TS3 runs just fine in Windows 10, without any special interventions.