It is my girlfriends birthday soon and i wanted to get her a laptop for a present. She really wants to play the sims 3 on it so any laptop that can take that will be fine. She will just use it to play the sims 3 and go on the internet on things like facebook and myspace also use msn.
Any suggestions into cheap ones i could buy. Thanks

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