Mustrum_Ridcully
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In computers it never hurts to wait some time to get a new one - until it hurts to not have a new computer. If you get what I mean - if you wait, you'll get a better one for the same price.Well thats good to know, but what about a year from now? Sims 3 may require a bit more of kick in the way of requirements.
Notebooks are bad because they are hard to upgrade, and they often come with suboptimal hardware - weak graphic cards, slow hard drive, stuff like that.
It's usually easier to upgrade desktop PCs - you can do it all by yourself, usually. But it appears as if new standards for sockets, RAM and so on are established every few years, so often you still end up buying a new computer instead of upgrading - unless you upgrade early.