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Help needed choosing a laptop & office package please

Lotus

I need to buy a new laptop and I don't want to pay a lot for it. I only use one for browsing the internet, making online purchases, using Excel and occasionally watching YouTube or an online TV service like ITVX or Prime video. I don't need much storage as I only save a small amount of documents on it - I don't download music, videos, etc. and I don't use it for gaming either.

There are cheap laptops on the Argos website - some have Windows 11 and others use Google Chrome. The googling I've done suggests one with Windows 11 would be better if I want to install a Microsoft office package which includes Excel - is that correct?

I think that 4gb RAM and 64gb of storage would be enough for my needs?

Also, can anyone advise about buying an office package that includes Excel with a lifetime licence, as I don't want a subscription. How much is this likely to cost and where is best to purchase it?

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  • Lotus said:
    can anyone advise about buying an office package that includes Excel with a lifetime licence,

    have a look on Groupon or Pricerunner websites for Office licenses - i paid 11 pounbds for 2 lifetimne licenses for office 2024 pro.

    Microsoft direct wanted to makeme pay 110 pounds for the same thing but that was for a 1 year license subscription.

    The companies use a volume licensing scheme and issue you a key for a license withing their "tenant" so there is a chance it may stop working at some point, but for about a fiver it is worh it and you just need to buy another license key when you need to.

    I've had some of these working for over 8 years already so they are not all dodgey.

    Lotus said:
    I think that 4gb RAM and 64gb of storage would be enough for my needs?

    I would suggest a bare minimum of 8Gb or RAM and 256Gb of storage, ideally 16Gb of RAM as Windows 11 is a bloated beast of an operating system and web browsers will use up memory surprisingly fast.

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  • Lotus said:
    can anyone advise about buying an office package that includes Excel with a lifetime licence,

    have a look on Groupon or Pricerunner websites for Office licenses - i paid 11 pounbds for 2 lifetimne licenses for office 2024 pro.

    Microsoft direct wanted to makeme pay 110 pounds for the same thing but that was for a 1 year license subscription.

    The companies use a volume licensing scheme and issue you a key for a license withing their "tenant" so there is a chance it may stop working at some point, but for about a fiver it is worh it and you just need to buy another license key when you need to.

    I've had some of these working for over 8 years already so they are not all dodgey.

    Lotus said:
    I think that 4gb RAM and 64gb of storage would be enough for my needs?

    I would suggest a bare minimum of 8Gb or RAM and 256Gb of storage, ideally 16Gb of RAM as Windows 11 is a bloated beast of an operating system and web browsers will use up memory surprisingly fast.

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