Sub $300 laptop for word

[QuantumBit]

My cousin is going to college, and he needs a laptop that can run word. Since its a gift between some family members, the budget is $300. Refurbished is OK, but please dont link any $400 laptops saying it has better "price to performance", there's just no place to get that money from. I understand it'd probably be better to get a $800 laptop for the long run, but its just not in our reach.

[userzero]

Anything will run Word. 

[marten.aap2.0]

I have a dell latitude 3160. its good enough for normal school/work usage.

specs:

quadcore pentium @ 1.6GHz

4GB ram

120GB SSD

 

I'm not sure if you can still buy it, but if not, other dell latitudes should do fine too.

[QuantumBit]

1 minute ago, userzero said:

Anything will run Word. 

yes and any car can drive

 

There's still many $300 laptops, all with different HDDs, screens, etc. I just need some help with people that have experiences with some budget laptops that can recommend some.

[Tsar_Maple]

This is a tough one, finding laptops in that range means very low RAM amounts (2GB) and low storage (64GB or lower). I would usually recommend a Chromebook, however, in my personal experience it's much better to have something that runs Windows. If OS isn't an issue though and he's just taking notes and printing stuff off, then that shouldn't be an issue.

 

This is one of the better ones I've seen. 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. Has USB C (nice!) and an SD card reader that he could use for additional storage should he need it https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/flex-series/Lenovo-Flex-11-Chromebook/p/ZZICZCLN231?irgwc=1&clickid=wVuTN10H1SJyXfIy2hU7rSO8UkjWA9WFz3W7wg0&PID=10915&acid=ww:affiliate:bv0as6

[QuantumBit]

4 hours ago, Tsar_Maple said:

This is a tough one, finding laptops in that range means very low RAM amounts (2GB) and low storage (64GB or lower). I would usually recommend a Chromebook, however, in my personal experience it's much better to have something that runs Windows. If OS isn't an issue though and he's just taking notes and printing stuff off, then that shouldn't be an issue.

 

This is one of the better ones I've seen. 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. Has USB C (nice!) and an SD card reader that he could use for additional storage should he need it https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/flex-series/Lenovo-Flex-11-Chromebook/p/ZZICZCLN231?irgwc=1&clickid=wVuTN10H1SJyXfIy2hU7rSO8UkjWA9WFz3W7wg0&PID=10915&acid=ww:affiliate:bv0as6

It needs to run word