Is this a good laptop for gaming and Sims?

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Question by ♥: Is this a good laptop for gaming and Sims?
Someone answered one of many of my questions and said the Dell Studio 15 is good for Sims 3. I just want a 2nd opinion. Will it run Sims 3?

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Answer by bon-gart
Well, ignore opinions. Why deal with what people think, when you can deal with cold, hard facts. Here are the system requirements for the Sims 3.

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:

* Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
* 2 GB RAM

The baseline Dell Studio 15 has a a 2.1ghz dual core processor, an Intel GMA 4500 and 3gb Ram.

So, aside what anyone might personally think of that computer, it WILL play the Sims 3. The quality level at which it will play the game, however, completely depends on the other software you have running at the same time… like whether or not you have a pile of stuff running at startup (Quicktime, Adobe Acrobat, Realplayer, Daemon Tools, the WindowsSidebar, etc, etc).

As far as OTHER games go, you would have to know the system requirements of the specific game you are thinking of, to be able to compare them to the system specifications of that laptop, to know if that laptop will play them. There is no way to say that this laptop is a “gaming” laptop. It is most definitely NOT a gaming laptop. Gaming laptops have processors that exceed 2.4ghz in speed, and have higher end video chipsets.

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