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Can I run Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)?
Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) by Microsoft: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- Windows: 1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core Intel processor. Mac: ARM-based or Intel x86
- GPU
- Windows: DirectX 9 or later for hardware acceleration; 1280 x 768 screen. Mac: no graphics requirements; 1280 x 800 screen
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 4 GB
- OS
- Windows 11; or macOS — one of the three most recent versions (the current release and the previous two)
Recommended requirements
Not yet verified.
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Which laptops can reach 4 GB of RAM?
291 of 317 laptops in our database support at least 4 GB of RAM (the model’s documented maximum). That is capacity, not what ships in the box — check your exact configuration, and see whether your model’s RAM can be upgraded.
Where these requirements come from
- Microsoft Support — System requirements for Microsoft 365 for home use · retrieved 9/19/2026
- minimum: Windows: 4 GB RAM (2 GB for 32-bit), 4 GB disk. Mac: 4 GB RAM, 10 GB disk (HFS+ or APFS) — updates may need more storage over time.
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