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You would be better off to buy a machine with 8 GB of RAM (this has 4 GB), so I would recommend spending another $150 if you can afford to, you may want to also look at an Intel Core i3 or i5, or AMD A9 or Ryzen processor. This comes with Windows 10, this means that the common university supplied Office 365 can run on it. Office will be slow to start, but then fine afterwards. Because of the limited RAM, you will be restricted to one or two tabs open on your browser. Any more and the machine will slow down. Being the father of college/high school students I can say that most likely the browser will be open at all times streaming music/videos along with applications for homework. That will be a pretty big strain on this limited memory, dual core (minimal processing power) device. ASUS is a good brand, but this is a minimum spec machine (I'm typing from the machine right now). It'll make due, but just minimally.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You would be better off with a chromebook the PC doesnt have nearly enough power to run anything well if you need the storage then invest the money into a high capacity sd card. The hard drive that is in the PC is as slow as can be purchased as in they dont make hdd any slower any more. So I will reiterate if you are a student on a budget do not get this ultimately it wont work any better than a $150 chromebook and $30 sd card. It will actually be slower.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it is a good use for a college student to run basic and light computing applications like web-surfing, emailing and word-processing without compromising system stability and performance.
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