Re: Best laptop for sims 4 uk?
@T0NICHA95 A laptop with a dedicated graphics card, for example the RTX 2050, is going to perform significantly better than the best laptops without one. The 2050 is almost twice as fast as the fastest integrated graphics chips you'd see in the £500 range, which is the difference between medium-high graphics settings and high-ultra. Whether that's worth getting a gaming laptop, or gaming-adjacent, and going over your budget, is your call.
For the rest, please link the product pages so I can take a look myself. The key component in terms of gaming-related performance is the graphics card or chip, and there are many different iGPUs available for a given family of processor. So I'd need to see the exact model to tell you how good or bad of an option a given laptop is.
I will say that if you're going with a system that doesn't have a dedicated graphics card (only the integrated chip), it's best to get 16 GB RAM if you can afford it. This is less critical with a dedicated card because it has its own video memory (VRAM), but the iGPU does not and will borrow from main memory, perhaps up to 2 GB if it can. That means that 8 GB installed RAM can become only 6 GB available, with Windows using 2-3 GB on its own, leaving 3-4 GB for Sims 4 and everything else you might have running, including background apps and bloatware. While I'd personally prefer 16 GB for even a gaming laptop, the presence of VRAM means the system has more room to maneuver.
Feel free to ask more questions in general as well as about the specific models you're considering.