laptop to play sims?

claroc

hello all, hope someone can help, i want to buy my daughter a laptop, really all she wants it for is to play the sims and download music but i have no idea where to start:o have up to £500 to spend, thanks all.

marshyrob

Any laptop in that price bracket will do what you require! Look at the normal sites like Currys, Amazon, Play, Ebuyer etc to get an idea of Spec/Cost. You cant go wrong with that sorta money. Tesco are doing some good deals on laptops at the moment!

claroc

thanks for reply marshylob, i just thought i had to have a big graphics card?

Russel245

Asus, Toshiba or Sony are the brands I would go with personally, they tend to have better reliability than most other manufacturers.

Looking at e-buyer, Tosh and Sony are pretty expensive but what about:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190374




If you can stretch your budget at all, this is what I would get:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/191605

Has 4 gigs of 1066MHz ram (thats a lot) a gig dedicated graphics, 2 year warranty, and a core 2 duo processor, it should perform very well.


On that second one you are also saving £80 on its original price, I think that's a really good deal.

Russel245

claroc wrote: »

thanks for reply marshylob, i just thought i had to have a big graphics card?

Sims requires "128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0" which basically means it doesn't, most integrated graphics will run it though personally I think you probably would find it smoother with a dedicated graphics card.