I got it for about $300 with taxes when it was on sale, but it hasn’t come yet. I am considering returning it when it does come though.
I had a budget around $400 (maybe up to $500), do you think I would be able to get something better with that price? Because I would really want to have Pets and Seasons in the future.
@xxlMarii $300 is a great price for that hardware, and it's not easy to find something at that price that's any better. This is better though, from a Sims 3 performance standpoint:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/5262667268
You'd also get twice the memory, which, while not strictly necessary for Sims 3, is great to have in general or for multitasking while gaming. On the flip side, the screen is likely not as pretty, although some of that is subjective.
If you're willing to go to $500, or close, this laptop would run all Sims 3 content on ultra graphics settings, minus the two (water and high-detail lots) that need to be turned down to lighten the load on the game engine. 12 GB memory is more than enough since the laptop would use the Nvidia graphics card's video memory for graphics-related processing.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/loq-laptops/lenovo-loq-15arp9/83jc0001us
I see a lot of other options in the $350-450 range that are about as good as the first one except for having only 8 GB RAM. If you want to keep the price down and don't like the first laptop for one reason or another, they're viable options; let me know if you'd like a list of these. If you're willing to go to $450 though, you might as well spend a bit extra and get a proper gaming laptop, i.e. the Lenovo LOQ above.
Could I have the list as well please? I would like to also play The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection, and I was wondering if it would be able to work with both. I know TS2 is older, but I was guessing it still has a fair amount of load on a laptop.
@xxlMarii The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection will run fine on a significantly weaker computer, not necesarily any computer, but it's much more forgiving.
What country are you in, and how much would you like to spend? I can make some suggestions, but really, Sims 2 is not much of an issue; this would be more about getting the most for your budget. On the flip side, TS2 requires more work to get running properly on almost any newer computer due to its lack of updates since 2008 or so. That means you wouldn't necessarily have a game that ran perfectly out of the box no matter what you bought.
