or open office
or get the student edition of office for $40
or drop the extra fan
or go to walmart and get the hello kitty keyboard and save a few bucks
or drop the gpu down a notch
or save $20 - $40 and get the i5 2500k
Libre is the new Open Office. Oracle screwed up Open Office pretty much, and the original dev's got sick of Oracle and created Libre Office.