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4 minutes ago, PhoenixArising said:

I have a friend who is a teacher and is looking for a new laptop as her current one is pretty bad. Do you guys have any suggestions for good laptops around or below $800 and comes with word and such. 

He needs a pretty cool looking laptop if you understand.

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Laptops don't come with Word. Laptops come with Windows (or OSX) on them and you need to buy Office (which has Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) separately. Office comes in a subscription form and a 'one time buy' option.

The subscription is a 1 year thing (either for 1 or 5 devices) and costs roughly 60 or 85 euros respectively. There is also a 'one time only buy' version. The 2016 version. This one is roughly 140 euros.

 

Anyways, in terms of laptop what I would recommend.. I think Asus has some nice offerings with their Vivobook laptops. Otherwise Acer has a nice small model. It's an Acer Swift (can't remember what the new Kaby Lake ones are called) with an i3 7100U, 256GB SSD storage, 4GB internal memory which comes in a 14" shell. The laptop itself is 1.5KG heavy, so it's easy to carry around. It has two 'normal USB ports' and 1 USB Type C port.

It comes with Windows 10 and you need to get Office with it separately. There is also an i5 and 8GB version of it, which is roughly 100 Euros more where I live.

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22 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Laptops don't come with Word. Laptops come with Windows (or OSX) on them and you need to buy Office (which has Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) separately. Office comes in a subscription form and a 'one time buy' option.

The subscription is a 1 year thing (either for 1 or 5 devices) and costs roughly 60 or 85 euros respectively. There is also a 'one time only buy' version. The 2016 version. This one is roughly 140 euros.

 

Anyways, in terms of laptop what I would recommend.. I think Asus has some nice offerings with their Vivobook laptops. Otherwise Acer has a nice small model. It's an Acer Swift (can't remember what the new Kaby Lake ones are called) with an i3 7100U, 256GB SSD storage, 4GB internal memory which comes in a 14" shell. The laptop itself is 1.5KG heavy, so it's easy to carry around. It has two 'normal USB ports' and 1 USB Type C port.

It comes with Windows 10 and you need to get Office with it separately. There is also an i5 and 8GB version of it, which is roughly 100 Euros more where I live.

Her current laptop was bought from HP and it came with office and such already installed and activated 

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