Sorry, I know there is a gaming board but I know there is more traffic on here.
All DD really wants for Christmas is a gaming laptop, she is massively into Roblox and The Sims 4 and she really wants to be able to play 'proper' PC games via Steam too. Her poor old second-hand ex-business laptop really isn't up to scratch graphics-wise (or anything-else-wise, really). It'll run Roblox at the lowest resolution and it just about copes with The Sims. It can't do anything that requires a graphics card.
We need to do this on as small a budget as possible, but I'm also aware that getting the absolute cheapest machine may come back to bite us when it's obsolete and will no longer run newer games a year from now.
Any gaming experts out there? What do we need in terms of RAM (16GB?) and particular in terms of graphics? Any recommendations for particular machines/sellers?
Wanting laptop rather than desktop as, although she'll dock it with an external screen and keyboard etc at home, she'll want to sometimes take it to her grandparents' house or a friend's house.
All advice gratefully received; I would normally get on a mad research mission myself but I'm not very well and swamped with other life admin to do at the moment as DD is having an awful time trying to settle into high school and you wouldn't believe how much work that creates in terms of emailing, meetings and form-filling. (Plus of course the impact on all of our stress levels and mental health, especially DD - which is why we want to try and give her a really good Christmas present that will also help her keep in touch with her handful of friends via gaming, given she's not really seeing them at school.)