I would like to use this product for writing Word docs, completing tasks for my online class, and blogging. Would this product be a good fit?
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No this will not work for school, blogging, yes. I bought this for my 8 yr old son to play games, emails, you tube . You need something a little more advanced for school.
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I bought it for my wife. I think it is compatible for both window 7 and 8. Pen power is very useful and efficient. I recommend this for law school students. As for the quality, I give it a 6/10 because it does not work anymore. My wife only used it for less than a year.
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i feel that it may be ok for class work,i have found it not good for recording music.i suggest --pay another 20.00 and get a good one.
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Good question - you will have to scoot - it doesn't hang over enough for me to recommend it using a laptop. If your writing, reading, or eating breakfast...sure.
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I use Kingston office which creates .doc documents. It's baicially Word Processor for Android.
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It could be a good highschool laptop - the price is excellent. You would need to purchase Microsoft office 365 to get Word, Power Point, Excel. It is a big screen - 15.6 inches wide - but not heavy. Could go in your backpack to school with you. Good battery life. Hope that helps...
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I personally would not consider this ideal for writing for extended periods of time. People don't realize this, but this lap desk is actually relatively heavy, sometimes to the point where my 13" MBP is on it and it's all on my lap and feels like its just crushing my legs- maybe I'm just sensitive..At any rate, if you plan on like writing your daily notes on it, then it would be okay for that. But if you're looking for a long term solid option, I would look around at other options first.
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No I don't believe so. Although short on ram and disk space I have been able to do everything I have thrown at it. For light to medium duty tasks it's a great little tool. I have word and excel as well as several of my own programs on it. It still has half of its disk space left. If disk space is a problem get a large USB 3.0 drive to store your data on.
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Depends on how well you stack your papers.I would use this item for that purpose. Hope you do well on your paper route.sara
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Hi there, It works fine with word and adobe. The laptop is not that fast if you need it for work. I strongly recomend it
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Thanks everyone for all your feedback. It has been very useful. I think I will go with this, in order to avoid compatibility issues with my documents, even though my word and excel docs are not too complicated, but googledocs has been limiting...I think I can handle a boot time of < 30 secs with Windows 8. So, I will shoot for that, and see how it goes... Traditionally, I have chosen to stay away from new Windows releases, to give Microsoft a chance to iron out the bugs... but, it looks like this one isn't too bad... :-)Thanks again.Mike.
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I don't see why not. Mine handles Office Suite, browsers with half a dozen tabs open, lots of simultaneous opened Word docs, and one of the biggest memory hogs of all time: Photoshop. I haven't run into a memory problem yet.
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Hello: It should be just fine for school. These units have Office 2013 RT which is a lite version (not the full version) of the software. We hope to earn your business. Thanks Jim
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Geeze - It was $84. It had Word and Excel on it but it was 10 years old. I'd only use it for a backup or dedicate it for e-mail. The keyboard is not for typing long papers.
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I found it to be more of something that you could let a young person to learn how to use a PC, or laptop than any thing else. But never attempted to use word processing off or online. So all I can say is good luck.it's really not of a great quality. At least not for my needs. I go to school online and it wasn't much help for me.
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This chromebook has a own application for word but not compatible with ms office, you may have to get documents to go application, that would help you for processing word document
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I am an aspiring creative writer and bought this selfsame Chromebook. It's very good for writing, so long as you're not too attached to Scrivener, Microsoft Word, or other such writing programs downloaded from the Web. I have found Google Docs to be a very good substitute to Word, with an added benefit of easy collaboration with other writers. The Chrome app store also has some really good distraction free writing apps (Pillarbox is my current favorite), and programs like Evernote come in handy. The keyboard is really good and the battery life is more than decent.