Re: will this laptop run sims 4 smoothly with almost all packs, a lot of cc, & mods?
@DUSTOUR I understand wanting to keep the price down, and if you wait until around Black Friday, you may be able to get a gaming laptop for more like $550; I actually saw one for as low as $450 last year, for about 24 hours. (It was essentially the older generation's version of the Asus gaming laptop I linked first, and made by HP.) But if you're looking to buy now, the one I linked for $550 is still better than any of the ones you linked.
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-A515-44-R41B-Hexa-Core-Processor-Graphics/dp/B087N4ZRXV
The graphics chip in the 4500U processor is about 20% faster in gaming, on average, than the chip in the 3500U, which is faster than the chips in any of the other computers you linked.
If you don't want the one above, these two would be the next level down: they both have a 3500U and equivalent hardware.
The only other one I'd think about getting is the Dell:
But it has a couple of disadvantages over even the two above. First, its graphics chip is only about two thirds as fast as the one in a 3500U and much slower than the one in the 4500U. Second, it only has a slow mechanical hard drive, so everything from Windows to your apps would load more slowly. Programs would run fine, they'd just take more time to do it. A solid state drive is more of a quality of life improvement than anything else, but it's a big improvement.
If you're worried about how much storage the other laptops have, you could buy an external 1 TB hard drive for $50 and still save money over the Dell.
The all-in-one computers all have weaker hardware than the ones above. That's not surprising—these systems basically have laptop components attached to a larger screen. If you would really like an all-in-one, look for a model with the same specs as the laptops listed above.
