Re: Can I play Sims 4 on a Surface Laptop 3?

@JasonD716  You can certainly do better than the Surface for your budget, although the thin and light requirement does constrain things a bit.  There aren't many light laptops in this range with dedicated graphics cards, but even the high-end integrated graphics chips should still run the game on medium-high settings.  Then the question becomes whether you want to pay extra for a slightly lighter model or some other feature that matters to you.

The processors with the fastest integrated graphics chips available right now, at least in normal laptops with reasonable prices, are the Ryzen 7 4700U and the Intel i7-1165G7.  The graphics chip in the 4700U is a bit faster on average, but there's a lot of variation depending on the game involved, so I'm not sure which would be better specifically for Sims 4.  You could actually get one of these for $800, although most other options for both are a bit more expensive.  Since I don't know how thin and light you want your laptop to be, or how much storage you want, here are a few different examples:

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-5000-laptop-amd/spd/inspiron-15-5505-laptop/ni155000_sb_s103e

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-5000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-5502-laptop/ni155000t_sb_5013dbe

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_1925_1912_1909&item_id=182956

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/thinkbook-series/ThinkBook-14-Gen-2-AMD/p/20VF004JUS

https://www.thesource.ca/en-ca/computers-tablets/laptops/all-laptops/asus-vivobook-flip-14-tm420ia-db71t-14%22-touchscreen-laptop-with-amd-ryzen-7-4700u%2c-512gb-ssd%2c-8gb-ram-windows-10-home/p/108092590

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/hp-15-6-laptop-natural-silver-intel-core-i5-1135g7-1tb-ssd-16gb-ram-windows-10/14960571

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-14-5000-2-in-1-laptop/spd/inspiron-14-5406-2-in-1-laptop/ni145406_sb_h5044be

This laptop has an entry-level dedicated graphics card, one that's not all that much faster in synthetic tests than the integrated chips in the laptops above.  But the advantage of a dedicated card is that it handles the graphics load separately from the processor, which will presumably have a moderate workload already while you're playing.  This laptop also has 16 GB RAM, which is convenient for multitasking if not strictly necessary.

https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_1925_1912_1909&item_id=165763

This is a real gaming laptop, just thinner and lighter than most.  Its graphics card should be able to run all current Sims 4 packs together on ultra settings.

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-7000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-7501-laptop/ni157501_sb_h014e

I know these are a lot of links, but there aren't really that many details to keep track of.  For the first list, the point is that the underlying hardware is essentially the same, other than a couple having a larger hard drive or more RAM.  So the important question there is which one you like the best.  Or if you want something a bit faster, take a look at the two with dedicated cards.

And feel free to keep asking questions as well.