A:AnswerNo. You can get a limited free trial or, if you are a student or faculty, you can install it for free. However, small trick - if you are connected to internet, you can use Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for free under Microsoft 365 (through browser). The only issue is you do not have by default the permission to install it on the machine.
A:AnswerIf you mean Cores and Threads it has 8 cores 8 threads (no hyperthreading).
Before you compare this to others dont forget to consider architecture which makes a huge difference and the loss of hyperthreading might not make a difference for many workloads.
Benchmarks can be much better than looking at core counts to compare processor models, though they may too be occasionally flawed. It is best to find one reccomended for your use case.
