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On top of that, MS Office is still by far the industry leader
I read an article recently that said that Google Apps had twice the market share of Microsoft Office.
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Google Apps
A lot of the startups we've shared work with seem to almost exclusively use Google Apps. But outside that Office does seem to dominate.
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I'm surprised by that. I go to a lot of different companies and I've never come across anyone not using MS Office.
I guess I'm mainly dealing with finance people though, there could be hundreds of other employees without the same requirements using Google Apps.
Or I wonder if they're counting the free version of google docs. I imagine a lot of people have used that, particularly as it comes pre-installed on Android, but not necessarily for much.
hugo7
aggi
Personally, contrary to most of the advice on here, I'd probably give up on it.
I've got a few old laptops running linux and they're fine but not great. Reasonable enough for web browsing and the like but often have a few annoying issues (some software/website that's required doesn't work, some missing driver, etc). I'd keep it if it was just a for a bit of light web browsing but not for work as well.
On top of that, MS Office is still by far the industry leader. I'd only contemplate using google docs, Libre Office, etc if the only documents I'm working on were entirely mine from start to finish. Attempting to use MS Office files nearly always throws up some formatting issues, formula incompatibilities, macro issues, etc. If you're using it for work then life is just too short for pissing around like that.
The Dell Outlet store is good (there's often discounts on there too) but personally, unless battery life was important, I'd look at something second hand. Something like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-X250-Core-i5-5200U-8GB-Ram-240GB-SSD-Windows-10-Webcam-Laptop/233240665373 or this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-Yoga-12-Core-i5-5300U-8GB-Ram-180GB-SSD-Touchscreen-Laptop/323833487962 would outperform a budget laptop twice the price. I've used that ebay seller a fair few times and they're reliable.