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My sisters 16th birthday is coming up and she want a laptop so she and my older sister are giving some money to myself (and I am then contributing some) to get her one.

Her requirements are that it can play The Sims 4. Because she want to do some minor gaming on it and to keep it future proof as laptops obviously can't be upgraded other than HDD and RAM I have been trying to find an Intel Quad Core laptop but I am struggling so am now here asking for help!

The budget is £550 but I would also like to be able to buy her the Sims 4 with this budget as a little surprise :)

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My sisters 16th birthday is coming up and she want a laptop so she and my older sister are giving some money to myself (and I am then contributing some) to get her one.

Her requirements are that it can play The Sims 4. Because she want to do some minor gaming on it and to keep it future proof as laptops obviously can't be upgraded other than HDD and RAM I have been trying to find an Intel Quad Core laptop but I am struggling so am now here asking for help!

The budget is £550 but I would also like to be able to buy her the Sims 4 with this budget as a little surprise :)

Lenovo G510/G50 

 

Getting a quad core could be troublesome, since only high end mobile i7s are quad cores (i7-47xx)

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Lenovo G510/G50 

 

Getting a quad core could be troublesome, since only high end mobile i7s are quad cores (i7-47xx)

Those Lenovo ones are over budget. I suppose my next question then is will dual cores be sufficient and if so which?

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On the intel mobile side only some i7s are quad core, you can't get one with that budget. Also there is no such thing as future proof, especially for that price ^^

 

You're probably better off getting an apu laptop, after all if all she does is play the sims a decent integrated gpu can't hurt. I suggest this one but I'm not sure it's the right price, it's not available in my country apparently.

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On the intel mobile side only some i7s are quad core, you can't get one with that budget. Also there is no such thing as future proof, especially for that price ^^

 

You're probably better off getting an apu laptop, after all if all she does is play the sims a decent integrated gpu can't hurt. I suggest this one but I'm not sure it's the right price, it's not available in my country apparently.

Not available here either. I suppose an apu would make sense. Which ones are good to loom out for?

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Not available here either. I suppose an apu would make sense. Which ones are good to loom out for?

I'd personally go Intel as their much more powerful.... 

 

Go for whatever Lenovo with an i3 or higher that you can afford. 

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Not available here either. I suppose an apu would make sense. Which ones are good to loom out for?

 

anything a6 or higher pretty much

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