What laptop do you play on?

I play on a Macbook Pro from 2019. I've never tried the ultra graphics settings. The game runs well, no lag that I've noticed, loading screens take 10-15 seconds at most.

I have been leaning towards a desktop however as i travel locally daily so in this instance a laptop is more convenient me.

Desktop wise, I’ve been looking at those mini gaming towers but so far I’ve only found MSi and Zotac ones but the Zotac ones are barebone.

"Brd709;c-17968407" wrote:

"Calico45;c-17968387" wrote:
So, I do have a gaming laptop now, but you don't have to have one in my opinion.

Would yourself or anyone be able to recommend something that I can play the Sims 4 on but doesn’t fall in to the gamer category? My minimum specs would be 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD, a 10th gen or 11th gen processor. Have integrated graphics improved a lot or is it still necessary to have a dedicated graphics card for most games these days?

If you don't mind me asking, what is it about the "gaming" label that puts you off? The price or the sometimes gaudy look? Maybe the size or power consumption? (Mine is pretty big and requires two chargers, but I consider it as portable as any other laptop.) Most of my experience when determining what to upgrade to had me picking a gaming laptop for parts that usually come with it and making upgrades where I needed more (like my SSD).

Anyway, knowing that would make it easier to recommend something.

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"Calico45;c-17968543" wrote:

"Brd709;c-17968407" wrote:

"Calico45;c-17968387" wrote:
So, I do have a gaming laptop now, but you don't have to have one in my opinion.

Would yourself or anyone be able to recommend something that I can play the Sims 4 on but doesn’t fall in to the gamer category? My minimum specs would be 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD, a 10th gen or 11th gen processor. Have integrated graphics improved a lot or is it still necessary to have a dedicated graphics card for most games these days?

If you don't mind me asking, what is it about the "gaming" label that puts you off? The price or the sometimes gaudy look? Maybe the size or power consumption? (Mine is pretty big and requires two chargers, but I consider it as portable as any other laptop.) Most of my experience when determining what to upgrade to had me picking a gaming laptop for parts that usually come with it and making upgrades where I needed more (like my SSD).

Anyway, knowing that would make it easier to recommend something.

The ‘gaming’ label doesn’t put me off but at the moment my confidence in buying another ‘gaming laptop’ is very low. I had to send a Legion 5 2060 rtx back in June this year because the screen failed after two months use and when the repaired device came back to me with the replacement LCD it wouldn’t even come on or be detected by HDMI. Then that laptop had to be sent back to Lenovo’s repair centre again where they ended up replacing a perfectly good motherboard with another one. That unit went back to Lenovo twice in a month and both repair tickets took three weeks due to lack of parts. By the end of May, what was a brand new laptop ended up being a totally refurbished one and I wasn’t confident in using it so it went back by June.

I bought an Asus ROG Strix G15 3060 rtx 300hz screen two weeks ago and on day one out of the box I found dead pixels on the screen straight away, I hadn’t even got as far as downloading The Sims 4 and I ended up returning that one the next day and I was literally heart broken that I had to send another laptop back.

By non gaming I meant are there any ‘standard’ laptops that could run The Sims 4 and handle a bit of audio editing for my job without having to splash out thousands on one. Truthfully, the pretty colour changing lights on the keyboard and around the sides don’t really bother me. I just want something that runs good enough to play this amazing game on.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend something like my old Asus, then, which was an all purpose laptop. I kept it for a long time, but the internal disk drive was faulty when I got it. I had to send it off three times for repairs before they would finally replace it (wiping everything each time). From then on it was fine, but over its lifespan it picked up some... Odd quirks. Like how it didn't go into sleep mode properly. Good luck turning it back on, especially if you didn't want to forcefully shut it down because you would lose something. It then stopped shutting down properly. It was hard to get it to turn off properly.

And this is just my trouble with one store bought laptop (which ran 4 and many other games just fine, I might add). I've known others to have a lot of trouble with store bought standards as well, and if I had to guess you have in these last two cases. (You bought those models as is rather than reconfiguring anything, right?)

Since it is a confidence thing, I'd want a really good warranty/the seller to test my laptop before sending it to me. I'll bring up Xotic PC again just because it is what I and my brother used and we both had a good experience. They have standard configurations starting around $800 from what I remember, so nothing extra like mine required. I understand why it would be undesirable, though, so I am also going to recommend Trustpilot, a review website, and to pick a seller with reviews that makes you feel confident.

On Ultra? No.

But my potato of a travel laptop (an Acer made in 2016 that I paid $500 for new) will run it on low to medium, enough to make it playable when I'm in a hotel on the road.

Asus Rog Zephyrus S17

Can confirm that the 2019 Macbook Pro can handle audio editing- I do that on this machine from time to time in connection with my RL job.

I have been playing on my alienware 15 R4 for a few years now and its brilliant, no lags or issues. My son uses it to play his VR games as well and it has more than enough space for future packs, I have sims 2, 3 and 4 and both sims medievals on it, unfortunately not sims 1 as the laptop does not have a disk drive.

Omen Laptop 015. I love it! It has no problems running my game.