Does Microsoft windows Vista home premium edition offer microsoft word and allow for internet and email?

i want to buy a "gaming" laptop but i need word and internet/email available. i found this one laptop on walmart.com: Acer 17" Aspire with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-core processor for $698. it has vista home premium built in. is this a good buy? and which is a better processor: AMD Athlon or Celeron?
Does Microsoft windows Vista home premium edition offer microsoft word and allow for internet and email?
1) Microsoft Word does not come with Vista. If you need MS Word, you'll need to purchase it separately - either along with the rest of Microsoft Office suite or on it's own. However, it doesn't come with Vista.





2) That sounds like a decent buy to me. You say you want a "gaming" laptop - something like this probably won't play many modern games that well though. It would be fine for email and internet browsing, but games are very intensive and in general, laptops aren't as good at gaming as desktop PCs. You'll probably have to spend out more money if you want to play the latest games - I would recommend getting a desktop PC instead of a laptop for gaming. Make sure it has a dual core processor too and a decent video/graphics card.





3) AMD Athlon X2 is a better processor than Intel Celeron. Celeron is now quite old, while Athlon X2 is dual core (which means it has twice the power of an old processor in it). Intel Core 2 Duos are the best chips though - buying one of these would be a good idea if you want to play the latest games on it.
Reply:Athlon is better. Celerons are just Pentiums that don't pass all of the QC checks at full speed, so they sell them flr less $ and run them a slower speeds.





Word is not included in any operating system from MS. Internet Explorer is part of the OS, and it drags Outlook Express(email) along with it.





This laptop won' work well as a gamer - lame graphics. Make sure you get at least 2Gb of memory - 4Gb would be better for games.
Reply:The Acer definitely sounds like a good computer... Windows Vista does offer internet and Microsoft word. The Athlon dual core processor is very good... You can find parts for it anywhere... I would have the Athlon before the celeron. Do you know the RAM and Size of the hard drive? those are the main factors for a good gaming computer
Reply:Computer do not come with internet/email you have to have a provider. All most all computers nowadays are internet compatible. You cant buy a computer with just word, as far as i know, but you can buy them with works. I would recommend looking into http://www.openoffice.org It is a free version of works.
Reply:Neither is definitely for hardcore gaming.





Microsoft Word may come installed (only as a free trial though)





and as long as the laptop has an Ethernet port or a wireless card, it will be able to get Internet.





http://openoffice.org for a free application that is just as good as Microsoft Office
Reply:you will have internet and email, and media player, but not much more. Word (MSOffice) will set you back another few hundred. Processor, no idea. Good buy? maybe. Better than what you can get from Wal-mart? definitely. (and I work there!)