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Question

Hidden costs of buying laptop?

Mar 11, 2017 4:03AM PST

I was thinking of buying music to run Ableton or some music software. Apart from the music software are there hidden costs.

Like if i need office etc just for general use. or are the free allternatives fine to use. I dont want to download loads of crap software that makes the laptop go slow.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-E5-575-15-6-Inch-Notebook/dp/B01M6YTT4H
Thanks for any advice.

Post was last edited on March 11, 2017 4:18 AM PST

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Re: hidden costs
Mar 11, 2017 4:18AM PST

You don't need Office to run music software. So that is a non-issue.

If you want to use it for other things, there might be costs involved, depending on the kind of things. MS Office, indeed, isn't free. But if free (open source) LibreOffice is suitable for what you want to do with it, you've got no costs for routine things like word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. You can install it on your current PC to have a look.

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Mar 11, 2017 5:40AM PST

Yea thanks for that.
Another thing i was thinking if you get windows 10 with it is that usually a licence that i would have to renew or would i own it outright. And stuff like media player programs for playing dvds or cds- I suppose its been a while since i bought a laptop and the last one i got came bundled with lots of free stuff but i dont think that happens now.

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What is this about renew?
Mar 11, 2017 6:08AM PST