Should I advice my friend to get a new computer?

[VengeanceGamer]

I have a friend who has a 15 year old Samsung laptop with Windows xp on it, and he is also still using office 2003 2002. Should I advice my friend to get office 365 and a new computer?

 

EDIT: He is using office 2002, not 2003.

[chowderblue]

11 minutes ago, VengeanceGamer said:

I have a friend who has a 15 year old Samsung laptop with Windows xp on it, and he is also still using office 2003. Should I advice my friend to get office 365 and a new computer?

if he has money to spare my dude

[Freezanator]

@VengeanceGamer Definitely.  

[sun2]

I would say its about time to upgrade lol

[KuJoe]

If he needs an upgrade then yes, he should upgrade. Unfortunately you haven't provided any information on whether or not he needs to upgrade or not.

[TetraSky]

Heck, he could easily find a used PC for under $100 that would be worlds better than whatever he has right now... I found a computer in the trash that was newer than that before, just needed to change the PSU... like seriously, yes.

Unless he truly doesn't need it. If all he use his computer is for word documents every once in a while, than no. But if he use it regularly, even for simple web browsing(other than checking his emails), he definitely will benefit from it. A 15 year old PC is , early P4/Late P3, those computers are utterly slow compared to today's computers.

[Wardaddy]

I think you shouldn't. Because if he doesn't feel like he needs a new laptop after having a 15yr old laptop (which is considered unusable in my opinion) then he probably doesn't need one. So unless he's complaining about the usability of his own laptop, I don't see any reason why you should recommend him to get a new one.

[LogicalDrm]

For PC, if its slow and unstable, yes. For Office, no. Newer versios bring really little to basic work. Getting 365 is much more move than what getting even 2010 would be.

[mmaatt747]

yes for Windows security updates alone