comparing two laptops - help please...thanks

thanks for all your replies..........ianskinner - so, you dont recommend these?????? i have another week to find my daughter one before shes paid - can you suggest one for me? budget £400 and must be good to play sims 3 and all expansion packs too (as stated before) - also must be cd/dvd drive and 6gb ram or more...........thanks...

im not really sure why she wants that much ram but, mine is a 4gb and she said she wants more than mine........ive found the last two i was comparing on dabs.com cheaper.....

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-k53e-sx961v-b950-6gb-ram-500gb-hdd-15-6-dvd-sm-w7hp-7TQR.html?utm_source=pricerunner&utm_medium=price+comparison&utm_content=PN00

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-k53e-sx962v-core-i3-2330m-6gb-500gb-15-6-w7hp-7T6W.html?utm_source=pricerunner&utm_medium=price+comparison&utm_content=PN00

im really stuck now though......

im pretty clueless but, if i can find the perfect and best for her im sure she wont mind if it isnt 6gb, maybe 4gb then?

are the two ive chose not any good then?

could you suggest an alternative please?

thanks so much for your help........

the specs needed to run sims 3 are; but there arent any windows 7 included.....



The Sims™ 3 Minimum Hardware RequirementsFOR WINDOWS XP

• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1 GB RAM
• 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
• At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

FOR WINDOWS VISTA

• 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
• 1.5 GB RAM
• 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
• Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
• At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:

• Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
• 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
• 0.5 GB additional RAM

FOR MAC OS X

• Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
• Intel Core Duo Processor
• 2 GB RAM
• ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100.
• At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games
• This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

Windows Supported Video CardsNVIDIA GeForce series

• FX 5900, FX 5950
  6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
  7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
  8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
  9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
  G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150
  GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295

ATI Radeon™ series

• 9500, 9600, 9800
  X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
  X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
  2400, 2600, 2900
  3450, 3650, 3850, 3870
  4850, 4870

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)

• GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants may default to settings that are higher than what would be optimal for them. Graphics settings can be lowered to improve performance. The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista. MAC OS X Supported Video CardsNVIDIA GeForce series

• 7300, 7600
  8600, 8800
  9400M, 9600M GT
  GT 120, GT 130

ATI Radeon™ series

• X1600, X1900
  2400, 2600
  3870
  4850, 4870

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)

• GMA 3-Series