can a laptop with these specs run the sims 4 on med-high settings?

thanks! my budget is probably under $700 and i’m in the US. if you have any other suggestions i’d be happy to hear! 🙂 

@princesspietsch  For under $700, you can still do a bit better than the laptop you found.  There aren't many options with a larger hard drive and otherwise equal or better specs than the model you're considering, but if the only thing that will take up a lot of storage is Sims 4, you'll be fine.  Here are a few examples of what you can get, in order of increasing price and also increasingly powerful hardware.

This HP is the cheapest good new option I saw, at $580.  Its processor and graphics card are both a bit better than the ones you listed, although the difference is small.  It has the same small solid state drive too.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Acid-FHD-NVIDIA-GDDR5-HP-Shadow-GTX-3-Intel-GeForce-Pavilion-Black-8GB-GB-Core-1050-i5-9300H-SSD-15-dk0068wm-Laptop-Green-256GB-SDRAM-15-6-Gaming/578241214

This MSI is $744 but comes with a $100 rebate.  Its graphics card is a little faster than the HP's; the two otherwise have the same specs.

https://www.newegg.com/black-msi-gl-series-gl73-9rcx-030-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834155245?Item=N82E16834155245

For $650, this Asus has a somewhat faster graphics card than the one in the above laptops and the slightly weaker processor in the one you found.  Since Sims 4 is most heavily reliant on the graphics card, this tradeoff is likely worth it: this might mean the difference between running all future packs together on ultra settings or having to dial some of the settings back to high.  (It's unclear at this point what the final requirements will be for ultra settings.)

https://www.amazon.com/R5-3550H-Processor-Graphics-FX505DT-AH51-Keyboard/dp/B07VBK4SYS/

If you do want more storage, the only equivalent option I saw was this Acer, $700 on a site that doesn't charge sales tax if you sign up for its card.  (Not something I'd normally do, but it's a significant cost savings.)  This laptop has the same Nvidia 1650 as in the Asus above, but a much stronger processor than any of the other models, plus a 512 GB solid state drive.  That's more than enough storage for most people.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1485583-REG/acer_nh_q5faa_003_nitro_7_i7_9750h_8gb.html

If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.

thank you so much, i will probably get the hp for the better graphics card. i was wondering if you know is there any way to expand the solid state drive of that laptop? 

@princesspietsch  From what I can gather, this laptop has one M.2 slot, occupied by the 256 GB SSD, and one empty 2.5" drive bay.  While you could replace the installed SSD with another one, you'd need to reinstall Windows as well.  (This is not particularly difficult but takes some time.)  Decent 512 GB NVMe SSDs (the fastest category of hard drive) start around $65.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YFF3JCN

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1437037-REG/intel_ssdpeknw512g8xt_660p_512_gb_ssd.html

Or you could add a second drive and not need to reinstall anything.  A slow 1 TB mechanical drive can be as little as $45 or so.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071F9MLJJ

A 1 TB hybrid drive, faster than a mechanical drive but slower than any SSD, might cost $60:

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-firecuda-1tb-st1000lx015/p/N82E16822179111

If you wanted more SSD storage, it would be a bit more expensive.  The 2.5" bay uses a SATA interface, meaning its speed tops out about six times slower than the fastest NVMe drives.  But that's still more than fast enough for most regular apps, including any game you might play.

500 GB:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PGC3JKQ

1 TB:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TBQ637W

You can really get any size hard drive you want, up to a point, but you wouldn't save much money by going below 500 GB for an SSD or 1 TB for an HDD.  And hard drives can always be added later, whenever you decide you need one.  If you're not comfortable adding a hard drive yourself, a computer shop should be able to do it for you in a couple minutes.

thank you so much for all your help!!