"Gaming" laptop for girlfriend, Please help

[Deleted]

Hello knowledgable people of mmo-champion! I would really appreciate some help with this since both me and My girlfriend are clueless on the matter!

She wants a new laptop and she wants it to be able to rum The Sims 4 smoothly on good settings.
She currently has a MacBook Pro which she says gets overheatwd quickly and lags allt.
She also says it is a bigger game than you would think so just any laptop would not do.
Budget is flexible, if under 1000$ that's great though!

I hope you can help is with this one so she stops asking to use my desktop all the time :'( .
Thanks in advance!

[ovm33]

Decent rig for less than your budget:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834154497

15.6" 1080p screen
Kaby lake 7300hq (mobile i5 with 3.1ghz boost)
GTX 1050 graphics card
8gb DDR4 ram - user expandable to 32gb
128gb SSD
1 TB HDD

Reputable name brand for $900 bucks.

But if she's just going to be sitting at the house playing then get a Desktop. You'll get much more machine for the same price.

[Denpepe]

I would look into one of these http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/produ...15-7567-laptop

[Deleted]

From what I can tell they both look nice! A quick google search tells me The Sims 4 requires Windows 7, 8 or 8,1 while both of these are Windows 10, can I assume that doesn't matter? She does download quite a bit of AddOns and Item packs, but other than that she only surfs the web and stores some pictures on the computer.

Also, it has to be a laptop, she needs to be able to carry it with her.

Thanks again for the help, it's much welcome!

[Sliske]

Sims 4 is a pretty modern game. My wife also plays it - on windows 10. It will be fine. Pretty much anything that runs on windows 7 runs on windows 10.

[Lathais]

From what I can tell they both look nice! A quick google search tells me The Sims 4 requires Windows 7, 8 or 8,1 while both of these are Windows 10, can I assume that doesn't matter? She does download quite a bit of AddOns and Item packs, but other than that she only surfs the web and stores some pictures on the computer.

Also, it has to be a laptop, she needs to be able to carry it with her.

Thanks again for the help, it's much welcome!

If something runs on 7, it should run no problems on 10. Games are almost always backwards compatible, except in the case of some games that came out around the time of XP and earlier. Since Vista though, it seems that most games are supported on newer OSs.

[zenkai]

Hello knowledgable people of mmo-champion! I would really appreciate some help with this since both me and My girlfriend are clueless on the matter!

She wants a new laptop and she wants it to be able to rum The Sims 4 smoothly on good settings.
She currently has a MacBook Pro which she says gets overheatwd quickly and lags allt.
She also says it is a bigger game than you would think so just any laptop would not do.
Budget is flexible, if under 1000$ that's great though!

I hope you can help is with this one so she stops asking to use my desktop all the time :'( .
Thanks in advance!

You can customize what you want but here is a base price of 1,099
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/MLK_Vector_15_VR



Operating System: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition)
Laptop: 15.6" FHD IPS (1920 x 1080) Anti-Glare Displays LCD w/ white color light Keyboard, HDMI 1.4 & mini Display Port
Laptop Color: VECTOR-15 Cover
CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz Turbo 3.5GHz 6MB Cache Processor
Motherboard: Intel® HM170 Express Chipset
RAM / System Memory: 8GB (8GBx1) DDR4/2133MHz SODIMM Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 (Pascal)[VR Ready] (NB-220-111)
Hard Drive: 480GB SanDisk Z410 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 535MB/s Read and 445MB/s Write (Single Drive)
Internal Wireless Network Card: Intel® Dual Band Wireless 7265 AGN + Bluetooth V4.0
Sound: Built-in HD audio

[PhantasmagoriaX]

Since you have a decent budget I suggest getting an Asus ROG laptop, Stay away from cyberpc/ibuypower as they tend to use shotty parts. I play Sims 4 on windows 10 and it runs beautifully.

[Lathais]

Look at Sager.

[Notdev]

http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...mputer_-_black

3GB GTX 1060, i7-6700HQ, 256GB SSD, 16GB DDR4, can't get better specs for $1000. But it is in store only, need to live near a micro center.

Do NOT go with a 900 series M card unless you find a great deal around 500-600. The new cards are so much better, run cooler, and take less power.

[micwini]

Yeah ill swap my gaming laptop for your girlfriend.

[Deleted]

Should've mentioned but we're from Sweden so a couple of those websites/stores are not available to us unfortunately
Thanks a lot for all the answers so far guys! Judging purely by performance, which one of http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/produ...15-7567-laptop
and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834154497 would suit us best? Feels kind of safe with well known brands like those!
Either way, I guess I can debunk her claims that she won't be able to find a laptop suitable to her needs right?

[Lathais]

Should've mentioned but we're from Sweden so a couple of those websites/stores are not available to us unfortunately
Thanks a lot for all the answers so far guys! Judging purely by performance, which one of http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/produ...15-7567-laptop
and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834154497 would suit us best? Feels kind of safe with well known brands like those!
Either way, I guess I can debunk her claims that she won't be able to find a laptop suitable to her needs right?

Well, the sager notebooks that I mentioned are really just Clevo's sold by Sager. There are Sager Re-sellers in your area too:

http://www.ggsdata.se/
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/lapto...vo-laptops/40/

If you are worried about known brands, Clevo is one of the largest and best laptop makers around.

[Deleted]

Ah, alright And you think there's a better choice from there than the ones I linked?

[PhantasmagoriaX]

Ah, alright And you think there's a better choice from there than the ones I linked?

out of the 2 you linked, go with the msi... Dell laptops have never lasted me longer then a year

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Hello knowledgable people of mmo-champion! I would really appreciate some help with this since both me and My girlfriend are clueless on the matter!

She wants a new laptop and she wants it to be able to rum The Sims 4 smoothly on good settings.
She currently has a MacBook Pro which she says gets overheatwd quickly and lags allt.
She also says it is a bigger game than you would think so just any laptop would not do.
Budget is flexible, if under 1000$ that's great though!

I hope you can help is with this one so she stops asking to use my desktop all the time :'( .
Thanks in advance!

Most games won't run well on Macbooks. Not because Macbooks are inferior...it's just that most games are only designed for Windows Machines.

[Lathais]

Ah, alright And you think there's a better choice from there than the ones I linked?

More than likely. Clevo laptops are great. Not always the best in terms of looks, but durable machines that last and stay a bit cooler than other brands. Function over Form.

[Deleted]

I will try to see what she feels about them! Thanks a lot for the help! What do you think about these following three (available in a store 2km away from us :P)? Will they be able to run it on good settings smoothly you think?
http://www.mediamarkt.se/sv/product/...t-1291842.html
http://www.mediamarkt.se/sv/product/...t-1281085.html
http://www.mediamarkt.se/sv/product/...t-1284003.html

Again, thank you so much for your help <3

[Lathais]

I will try to see what she feels about them! Thanks a lot for the help! What do you think about these following three (available in a store 2km away from us :P)? Will they be able to run it on good settings smoothly you think?
http://www.mediamarkt.se/sv/product/...t-1291842.html
http://www.mediamarkt.se/sv/product/...t-1281085.html
http://www.mediamarkt.se/sv/product/...t-1284003.html

Again, thank you so much for your help <3

I wouldn't get anything with a 960M with the 1050s being put in to laptops. Aside from the fact that it is last gen tech and will not last as long, with this generation, they are no longer putting cut down lower powered versions in laptops. You get a laptop with a 1060, it's really a 1060. Unlike with the 960M as opposed to a real 960.

[Deleted]

I wouldn't get anything with a 960M with the 1050s being put in to laptops. Aside from the fact that it is last gen tech and will not last as long, with this generation, they are no longer putting cut down lower powered versions in laptops. You get a laptop with a 1060, it's really a 1060. Unlike with the 960M as opposed to a real 960.

Even keeping in mind that we're talking about THE SIMS 4 as the ONLY game she'll be playing ever? Does it really have that big of an impact?