Yeah, same answer. Intel integrated graphics in that series are orders of magnitude slower than ATI and Nvidia chipsets. The newest chips that Tom mentioned, the Iris Pro series, sound real interesting, but I don't know anything about them because I've never actually seen a laptop with one of them in there. Every laptop I've seen has either the older Intel video chips, or one of the Intel+NVidia/ATI solutions. I'd love to try one out some time though, see how it does.

I'd still consider Sim City 5 to be generally in the "Modern" category (2013 release), but here's the real question: What's she playing it on *now*? Whatever you get her should be of equal or greater performance. Your initial post didn't make it clear whether her *current* computer was the one with the 4400 chip.