@DreamzInPink According to the screenshot you posted, this laptop has both an integrated graphics chip, as in, integrated into the processor; and a dedicated graphics card, the Nvidia GTX 1650. There's sometimes a bit of confusion around this distinction because with a standard laptop, the dedicated GPU is in fact simply a standalone chip soldered to the motherboard. (In a gaming desktop, it would be a chip soldered to its own PCB with separate cooling and power delivery, a component you could buy on its own.) But the practical effects are the same.
The important part of this is that the GTX 1650 is a separate component, not integrated with the processor and in possession of its own video memory. If you were to open the laptop, you'd actually see the little VRAM chiplets close to the GPU, and the GPU will use this 4 GB VRAM before borrowing from the 8 GB main memory (RAM). Since Sims 4 won't demand anywhere near 4 GB VRAM, the GPU will only use its own video memory, not the RAM.
@DreamzInPink I'd suggest downloading the free 3DMark demo from Steam and running Time Spy a few times. First, run it alone and make sure the laptop doesn't crash; feel free to post your score (you don't need an account to view it) if you'd like to know whether the hardware is performing as expected.
Next, restart the laptop, download hwinfo (free, and the portable version is fine), open it, click Sensors Only, and leave it running. Run Time Spy again, three or four runs back to back, then check the CPU and GPU temperatures. Hwinfo reports a LOT of data, most of which you can ignore if you're not seeing any problems. For this purpose, the key is that the laptop isn't overheating, with CPU temps hopefully no higher than the low 90s and GPU core temp no higher than the mid-70s. The hotspot temperature will be higher, which is fine.
Let me know what you find, and if you see any issues on-screen. In that case, I'd also like an hwinfo log, which you can create by clicking the button that's a sheet of paper with a + icon on it. That would let me look for a variety of potential problems all at once. But if the laptop performs well in this test, you don't need to worry about logging data.
The laptop itself should be wifi-ready, and you can click the wifi icon in the lower-right corner of the screen to choose your network and sign in. But if you'd prefer to wait until you deliver the laptop, that's fine too.
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