# Cheapest possible laptop that will run Office 365?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 5, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheapest-possible-laptop-that-will-run-office-365/721687 "2015-06-05T05:50:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheapest-possible-laptop-that-will-run-office-365/721687/1 "2015-06-05T05:50:43Z")

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Hey all,  
So it’s almost my birthday, and my sister has agreed to get me a laptop… but it must be CHEAP. All it needs to do, and I mean ALL, is to run Office. It will almost never even be used to go online. Just office. Just a word processor. That’s it. I have a couple of extra Office licenses to use, I’m already paying for them, and I will be using one of them. So it has to at least run Windows 7. There are some used laptops around here that are possibilities, but I wanted to see if people had some suggestions about new ones. Remember… it doesn’t have to have lots of processing power; it will virtually never be used for anything but writing (with a bit of Excel and a smidge of Powerpoint.) Thanks in advance…

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**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheapest-possible-laptop-that-will-run-office-365/721687/2 "2015-06-05T06:13:28Z")

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You’re in luck… in order to counter the surge in Chromebook sales, Microsoft and its hardware partners are pushing ultra-cheap Windows laptops at the minute.

[Here is a review](http://www.alphr.com/laptops/1000471/hp-stream-11-review) of one, but there are plenty of others.

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**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheapest-possible-laptop-that-will-run-office-365/721687/3 "2015-06-06T03:19:37Z")

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You are clearly psychic!! 🙂 I ended up getting the HP Stream 13 in orchid purple. It looks ideal-- I use my desktop for anything that requires real processing power.