Hi all I am desperate to get back playing sims and have it purchased in the ea app but sadly no laptop to play on! I’m not too bothered about having loads of mods or expansion packs would probably only have 1 or 2 if I did!
I just wondered if anyone could recommend a laptop for about £250 for sims?
i don’t play any other games and don’t have any other need for a laptop really so can’t spend too much! I’m UK based also!
thanks
e0cef07e66014ebf I honestly don't know whether it'll make a difference. That partly depends on when you'd be buying—whether it's during a sale week (e.g. Black Friday week) or if not, whether I can find something on sale from its usual £350-400 price tag. That's how much the next tier up would cost at a minimum. You can see that the regular price of the laptop I linked is £300, and it's about the same as the best options you'd usually see in the £300 range.
The one caveat is that if you want or need more storage, then yes, it would be best to save up, as I'd expect to be able to find an equivalent laptop with a 256 GB drive instead of 128.
On the other hand, depending on how long it would take you to save the extra money, you might prefer to buy now and be able to start playing right away. It's really your call.
I'm always around, so I'd be able to help you pick something out whenever you came back. But I can't predict what I'd be able to find for you beyond what I'd said above because the market can change a lot even in a few weeks.
Thanks that’s really helpful, final question do you think worth saving an extra £50 and increasing the budget to £300 or will it not make any difference?
e0cef07e66014ebf I don't expect I could find anything secondhand that's better and also from a reputable seller. The discounts on these are typically relatively small (less than £100), at least for anything a few years old or less, probably because the store has to justify the time and effort of refurbishing and validating the machine.
If you want to try Ebay, I can make some suggestions. But the graphics chip in this laptop is close to the performance of the fastest graphics chips available in the £400-500 range from two to four years ago, which is the class of laptops that I would expect to find in the £250 range now.
So you could in theory get a small performance boost from one of these, but the tradeoff is having an older laptop with no warranty and no store willing to replace it if necessary. I personally don't think it's worth the risk. Still, if you feel differently, let me know, and I'll take a look.
Oh amazing thanks for looking! If it helps I don’t mind going second hand? Or do you think that’s the best I’ll do? Thanks so much again!
e0cef07e66014ebf That's a really tight budget, and there aren't a lot of good options out there. But what do you think about this one?
It doesn't have much storage, but enough for Sims 4, your saves, and a small collection of mods and custom content (maybe 10 GB or so). It should be able to run the game on medium-high graphics settings, which is better than I thought I'd find when I started this search. I can keep looking, but I suspect I won't find anything better, and maybe not anything even as good.
If you don't like it for whatever reason, let me know why, and I'll try to find something more suitable.
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