Where to buy a laptop with MS office installed

[Deleted member 18121]

Hi all

The Mrs is after a new laptop with office installed.... Something in the £500-£700 bracket.

I've had a good Google search but finding something suitable is a minefield.... She went to pc world and the fella just shouted a load of jargon at her and she got the feeling he was working on commission rather than trying to find the best thing for her.

Does anyone have recommendations on where to shop for something like this?

Cheer
Adam

 

[fundy]

john lewis, laptops direct, ebuyer, amazon

lots of places you can buy, easiest to buy separate and then load the MS Office on

whats it being used for? just Word and Excel or other stuff to? Would be worth sending Fragger a pm (this is his field of expertise)

 

[Deleted member 18121]

john lewis, laptops direct, ebuyer, amazon

lots of places you can buy, easiest to buy separate and then load the MS Office on

whats it being used for? just Word and Excel or other stuff to? Would be worth sending Fragger a pm (this is his field of expertise)

AHH i see that's the part I was unsure of, I assumed it'd be "cheaper" to buy it pre installed rather than separate.

Yes it is to be used for office applications and in an ideal world I'd love to be able to run Bloomberg on it and link multiple monitors up.... So it'll need a decent lump of RAM.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Because there are different flavours of office you can't get it pre installed,
If you buy a new machine it's on there, but you have to activate the version you want.

Simple question , does she use Microsoft Outlook for emails?
If not then it is a simple toss up between office home and student which costs about 95 quid and gives you word excel and PowerPoint. Versus Office 365 which is £60 per year and gives you all the office programs.

Office home and office gives you word excel PowerPoint and outlook, but is about £180
Feel free to pm me if you need any more help 👍

 

[Deleted member 18121]

Because there are different flavours of office you can't get it pre installed,
If you buy a new machine it's on there, but you have to activate the version you want.

Simple question , does she use Microsoft Outlook for emails?
If not then it is a simple toss up between office home and student which costs about 95 quid and gives you word excel and PowerPoint. Versus Office 365 which is £60 per year and gives you all the office programs.

Office home and office gives you word excel PowerPoint and outlook, but is about £180
Feel free to pm me if you need any more help 👍

I see, that clears things up for me... The home and student version would be perfect. So I just need to hunt for the most RAM and processor speed for the money and factor in an extra £100 on top.

Cheers for the advice.

 

[fundy]

I see, that clears things up for me... The home and student version would be perfect. So I just need to hunt for the most RAM and processor speed for the money and factor in an extra £100 on top.

Cheers for the advice.

make sure it has or you install a SSD, so much faster than normal HDD

 

[ScienceBoy]

I've found open office a suitable alternative for general use.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

So on the face of it this seems like it ticks all the boxes.... Any warning signs or something I've overlooked?

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compu...0-14-ba095sa-14-2-in-1-gold-10164669-pdt.html

 

[PhilTheFragger]

It's a great spec apart from the size of the SSD hard drive. 128 gb is tiny, windows and programs will take up 40gb plus, then add your data and windows updates and I reckon your hdd will be full up in 2 years.

Why they are selling these beats me, the absolute minimum hard drive size should be 256Gb , preferably 512gb.

The addition of a SSD drive adds 3 years onto the lifespan of an average pc / laptop
That's a lot of updates/ data so you must get an adequate size hard drive or you will be having to replace it early

50 quid now could save you 500 quid in 4 years time

 

[jim8flog]

£500 -£700 price bracket.

The worlds your oyster.

I am wondering what she does with it that warrants that sort of price tag. Is she a gamer?

Ps my note book has only a 65gig SSD simply because it is all I need for what I do with it, web and office. If I need more storage I just store on a SD card or USB stick.

For years I have done most of Comp purchases on Ebuyer. You normally gets loads of reviews.