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Brennea
3 years ago
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Is this a good laptop for the Sims with packs, mods, and cc?

I've been looking at buying a laptop for the Sims 4 and I think I may have found the one, but the price seems lower than I expected so I'm suspicious. I'm not great with computers, but I think this m...
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    puzzlezaddict
    3 years ago

    @Brennea  Your link doesn't work, but I believe this particular model has a Ryzen 5 5500U processor, 8 GB RAM, and 256 GB storage?  If so, then it's fine for Sims 4: it probably won't run all your content on ultra graphics settings, but medium-high settings should absolutely be doable.  256 GB isn't a lot of storage, but it can hold all current Sims 4 packs plus a large collection of custom content; the problem would be if you were also installing other large games or storing another large data collection.

    As for the price, I can't comment on that, but I do see laptops like this on sale for around $450 U.S. on a regular basis.  This is the standard configuration for a laptop that's good enough for light gaming and schoolwork but isn't even an entry-level gaming laptop in either hardware or price.  And as such, there are a lot of options that aren't too expensive even before the regular sales hit.

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Brennea
3 years ago

@puzzlezaddict I'm looking at the Dell one and do you know the difference between the Intel model and the AMD model? 

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puzzlezaddict
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3 years ago

@Brennea  Sorry for the late reply.  The graphics chip in an Intel i5-1235U* is a bit faster than the chip in an AMD Ryzen 5 5625U, which is the same as the chip in an R5 5500U.  The difference is only a few percentage points, so not really worth crossing off the AMD option on its own, but I did want to mention it.  The R7 5700U has a slightly faster chip, one that's on par with the Intel chip.

These processors themselves are all fast enough to easily handle Sims 4 and some light multitasking, so their relative strength isn't an issue here.  And that's a whole can of worms anyway—Intel and AMD CPUs each have clear strengths over the other in the kinds of professional workloads you're probably never getting anywhere near on this machine.

*For anyone else reading, not all i5-1235U processors are paired with Xe graphics, so not all will have the particular graphics chip I'm describing.  Some will have a slower non-Xe graphics chip instead; this depends on the choice of the laptop manufacturer.  The laptops I listed do all have Xe graphics.

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