Would this spec laptop be ok?

Itsadogslife_2

Daughter needs a new laptop. She only uses it for light personal use, but likes to play Sims 4 every now and again, but not the heavy games the gamers are into. Curry’s have this one:-

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/hp-15fc0514sa-15.6-laptop-amd-ryzen-5-256-gb-black-10250853.html

Would this suffice for Sims4 which I believe needs this:-

https://help.ea.com/en/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/the-sims-4-system-requirements/

Open to any suggestions or recommendations.

J_B

Many on here would suggest that you didn't go near Currys!

Neil_Jones

Sims 4 has a "laptop mode" for laptops/lower visual quality (plus its effectively a 10 year old game now milked to death with DLCs/expansion packs)

Some might say its predecessor was the better game but... your mileage may vary.

Itsadogslife_2

Any reason @J_B - is there anywhere else to recommend? I bought my last laptop from Dell but it was over budget at about £650 🤔

J_B

Itsadogslife_2 said:

Any reason @J_B - is there anywhere else to recommend? I bought my last laptop from Dell but it was over budget at about £650 🤔

I got mine from here https://www.dell.com/en-uk/dfh/lp/outlet

It was brand new

MattMattMattUK

It would work for The Sims, but the Sims will pretty much run on a potato. I would recommend a minimum of 16GB of RAM and that CPU is three years old and was underpowered when it was released, it would feel slow even for general web browsing. 

I agree with the avoid Curry's sentiment. 

ballyblack

HP and Currys best avoided for laptops. Build quality of HP laptops ................. not great

bob2302

MattMattMattUK said:

It would work for The Sims, but the Sims will pretty much run on a potato. I would recommend a minimum of 16GB of RAM and that CPU is three years old and was underpowered when it was released, it would feel slow even for general web browsing. 

My laptop is well over 10 years old with a low end processor, and it doesn't feel slow for general web browsing.

Frozen_up_north

ballyblack said:

HP and Currys best avoided for laptops. Build quality of HP laptops ................. not great

I have a Dell Vostro laptop that had a key top "pop off" due to a faulty scissor hinge (the plastic interface between the keyboard backplane and the key top). No problem as it was only a few weeks old and under warranty... Dell stated any keyboard mechanical fault was down to rough handling and wasn't covered under warranty! They wanted £140 for a technician to come and fit a replacement keyboard and wouldn't supply a scissor hinge, only a complete keyboard and if I fitted it myself the warranty would become void.

£3 and eBay came to the rescue, replacement hinge fitted, fixed and now working. The bottom line is my old Asus has ten times tougher keyboard parts than Dell use. I did think Dell were a quality brand, not any more.

Vitor

The minimum specs you need to look for -

Processor: Intel Core i5 (11th or 12th Generation) or AMD Ryzen 5
Memory: 16GB 
Storage: 256–512GB SSD
Graphics: Intel Iris Xe (integrated) or AMD Radeon integrated – sufficient for The Sims 4 and general tasks
Display: 14-inch or 15.6-inch Full HD
OS: Windows 11 Pro
If you look on Amazon, plenty of laptops from Asus, Lenovo, Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire meet these specs

Cisco001

Itsadogslife_2 said:

Daughter needs a new laptop. She only uses it for light personal use, but likes to play Sims 4 every now and again, but not the heavy games the gamers are into. Curry’s have this one:-

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/hp-15fc0514sa-15.6-laptop-amd-ryzen-5-256-gb-black-10250853.html

Would this suffice for Sims4 which I believe needs this:-

https://help.ea.com/en/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/the-sims-4-system-requirements/

Open to any suggestions or recommendations.

RAM is not upgradable...