Help me choose a Macbook Pro

Hey everyone, I need some help in choosing which Macbook Pro is right for me.
Basically I'm wondering which of these 2 would be a better choice.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB471LL/A?mco=MTEzMjIzODU
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB471LL/A?mco=MTEzMjIzODU
What are the main differences?
4gb of ram should be sufficient and I doubt I would ever upgrade to 8gb.
as for graphics, I would mostly only need a mac that would allow me to play the latest Sims games. the first has a graphics memory of 512 and the second has 256.
Thanks in advance.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB471LL/A?mco=MTEzMjIzODU
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB985LL/A?mco=MTA4MzQ4MzU
sorry these are the 2 macs im looking at.
Now what do you guys think...?

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