@puzzlezaddict The GTX 1650 will give 60 fps at 1080p but will have trouble with for playing newly launched games you will get low frame rates and 256Gb of storage. I would recommend that laptop for a student doing a term paper. The proc is Comet Lake while it will do but it is not the latest and greatest. BTW their warranty support is 3rd party. I recommend reading up on it.
@roberta591 The OP didn't ask about a laptop that would run "newly launched games," they asked about a laptop for Sims 4. They also linked a $567 laptop as a potential buy. New laptops with a 3050 start around $800, and prices only increase from there. So the question should not be regarding the hypothetical ideal purchase for gaming in general but what options this particular person has within their preferred budget. That's why I asked specifically about their budget as well as for any other relevant details.
I'm aware of how MSI handles support and warranties for its laptops. I also didn't actually recommend the MSI laptop; I said this is the cheapest example I've seen recently of a gaming laptop. This is not a recommendation but rather a way to help this person calibrate the market: gaming laptops start at this price point, this is what they look like, etc. Whether a gaming laptop is worth the price premium is up to them, and I'm happy to try to find the best options available at any reasonable price rather than dismissing lower-tier options out of hand because someone won't or can't afford to pay more.
Walmart currently carries a ~$600 USD HP Pavilion laptop with either a Ryzen 4500U or 5600U CPU running Radeon graphics. For that price you also get 512 GB NVMe storage and 8GB RAM.
I bought the 4500U version last March and upgraded to 16GB RAM right away. Defaults to High graphics settings at 1080p in The Sims 4.
I'm pleased with what I bought and it should do you nicely at a decent price.
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