Laptop Suggestions?

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Hi, I need a new laptop but I am struggling to know which one to buy. I want to spend around £400-£550. I need it for University work and some gaming (i.e Sims 4 and Cities Skylines). I'd rather play games on recommended specs but I know this might be a lot to ask for games such as cities skylines.

Do I need a dedicated graphics card or is it better to get a better processor?

I've never had a AMD processor before (i'm currently on an i3-5005U processor). Is AMD better the Intel?

I'm from the UK and I'm looking to buy from John Lewis, Argos or Curry's.

I know this is a lot to ask but could some one help me pick. I think i'm going crazy looking by myself haha.
Thanks in advance
Sarah

Frozen_up_north

I personally would look first at (a) weight (b) battery life (c) ease of changing battery when the original has lost capacity. You don’t want to carry a heavy laptop far...

“Office” grade laptops are better value than a so called gaming one. Dell, HP or Lenovo are the usual ones for business use. Forget anything with a hard disk, SSD will boot up far quicker. All your work needs to be backed up to reliable remote storage to protect against theft, damage, malware or hardware failure too.

Don’t dismiss 2nd user, ex business laptops. However many are not supplied with new batteries so factor in the cost of a battery.

grumpycrab

SarahStarkid wrote: »

i'm currently on an i3-5005U processor

What computer is that and/or what's wrong with it?