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dmvdmeij1989 I don't have any of these systems, but I can tell you the first one could run all current packs together on medium-high to high graphics settings before the patch a few days ago. The game is supposed to have become more efficient after the patch, but the data is still coming in; at any rate, it's not a completely different game than before. Your daughter might be able to get away with high-ultra settings with only Horse Ranch installed, but at the very least, medium-high should be fine.
The second and third laptops are not nearly at the same level, and neither are the Ryzen laptops with a 7x20U processor. If you can find one with a 7x30U CPU, or a 5500U or 5700U, that would be at or slightly above the level of the first laptop.
Intel CPUs are a bit more difficult to assess because some of them have faster graphics only when there are two RAM modules present, so the memory is running in dual-channel mode. So a laptop with 2x4 GB would have faster graphics than one with 1x8 GB, even though they're both listed with the same specs. The i3 models have much slower graphics though—even an i3 13th-gen falls behind an i5 11th-gen in terms of graphics processing, again assuming the i5 has two memory modules.
It would be nice to have more than 8 GB RAM as well, for futureproofing if nothing else, but you can upgrade later as long as the laptop supports it. Sims 4 itself shouldn't use so much memory that it maxes out an 8 GB laptop with nothing else running on it, and if that does happen, it's typically because of too many background processes, not the game. That in turn is simple enough to fix.
Finally, if you'd like, I can take a look at online stores where you'd be willing to shop. The language barrier isn't really an issue since the hardware is listed the same in any case.
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