Wife wants a laptop for Midieval and Sims 3...

but she doesn't want me to spend anywhere near a grand.

Can anyone recommend some specs that I should look for to get a decent laptop for gaming and web-browsing? I want to get something that can handle Sims 3 and the newest Sims, but I don't want it to be completely obsolete when Sims 4 ever comes out.

Any suggestions?

this should make her sail smoothly in those games and in any program

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230024

The truth is, the Sims 3 series (meaning its spin-off Sims Medieval) actually use up more computing power than it should. I am blaming crappy optimization on the programmers' part because this game isn't Crysis or anything, so it should not use so much graphical power.

That being said, around $500 - 600 will get you a good enough laptop that can run this game smoothly (probably on Low - Medium settings since this game is a bit of a resource hog). And it will most likely get obsolete when Sims 4 comes out because of bad optimization of code from Maxis again.

The truth is, the Sims 3 series (meaning its spin-off Sims Medieval) actually use up more computing power than it should. I am blaming crappy optimization on the programmers' part because this game isn't Crysis or anything, so it should not use so much graphical power.

That being said, around $500 - 600 will get you a good enough laptop that can run this game smoothly (probably on Low - Medium settings since this game is a bit of a resource hog). And it will most likely get obsolete when Sims 4 comes out because of bad optimization of code from Maxis again.tester_guy

Can laptops be upgraded? (sorry... laptop illiterate here)

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The truth is, the Sims 3 series (meaning its spin-off Sims Medieval) actually use up more computing power than it should. I am blaming crappy optimization on the programmers' part because this game isn't Crysis or anything, so it should not use so much graphical power.

That being said, around $500 - 600 will get you a good enough laptop that can run this game smoothly (probably on Low - Medium settings since this game is a bit of a resource hog). And it will most likely get obsolete when Sims 4 comes out because of bad optimization of code from Maxis again.chasingmaynard

Can laptops be upgraded? (sorry... laptop illiterate here)

Certain ones can, some have specially made parts. I know I bought a dell inspiron 1545 a while back (waste of $$$) that wasn't upgradeable. But I know for a fact most of them are at dell and hp.

THe oly parts changable and worth time changing are RAM and battery. Video card and CPU are suually in there permanently. The one i linked will breeze through any sims game