Laptop for Sims 3

kikel

I know feck all about graphics cards and I never play games so I need your help. Looking for a laptop for someone else and they want to play Sims 3 on it.

What would be a cheap laptop to play Sims 3. She wants Vista aswell.

Here are Sims 3 specs.


Vista (Service Pack 1)
Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+
2.0 GB Memory
GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600
128 MB Graphics RAM

Effluo

any cheap laptop

Effluo

Maybe i was a bit misleading in saying "any cheap laptop"

Obviously a 3-5 year old laptop would struggle but i'd stick by with pretty much any cheap laptop would play that quite easily.

It's the sims for goodness sake!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152309
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159081

surely either of these even with their celeron processors and vista with 1g of ram could easily breeze that game!???

thecutter

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surely either of these even with their celeron processors and vista with 1g of ram could easily breeze that game!???[/QUOTE]

not a hope of it... it would be very frustrating to play with those specs.

A core2duo and a dedicated graphics card is a must

Alanstrainor

Yeah, i wouldn't touch those Hp's, woeful machines. Core 2 Duo, at least 2Gb of RAM and a dedicated graphics card would do it. And you should be able to get that fairly cheap these days.

TerrorFirmer

Sweet spot would be something like Core 2/Turion 2Ghz with 2gb of ram and a HD3470/9300GS upwards for comfortable gameplay. Anything under will run but at levels so poor/ugly a 'new' laptop for playing said game couldn't be justified.

Effluo

ummmmmm k

cherryghost

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/Acer_Aspire_6920G-593G25Mn_LX.APQ0X.679/version.asp?PID=1004

Heck, for the Sims 3, this is slight overkill. But good value for a laptop.