The little laptop that could!
Written: Dec 11 '01 (Updated Dec 11 '01)
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Pros: Good looking, lightweight laptop for under 1000! What a deal!
Cons: No CDRW, low battery life, small keyboard. All can be worked around.
The Bottom Line: For everything you get in this notebook, expect to pay 300-400 dollars more elsewhere. This machine is great for only $1000.
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| dpipper's Full Review: Compaq Presario 700US PC Notebook |
This little laptop is a rare find at under 1000.00. You get a good deal of power and it's quite light weighing in at only 6.39 lbs. The price I paid was after 2 rebates, one from Compaq, the other from Circuit City.
Out of the box it was easy to setup with a simple to read/use setup poster that describes each of the ports front/back and what the buttons on the inside are for.
The keyboard is small and gets in the way at times, but fix that by adding a PS/2 keyboard and you're good to go. The RAM is shared with the Video memory, so you only get 240 MB of RAM, I imagine when RAM is cheaper for this notebook, I'll upgrade to 384MB (Maximum for this model).
It comes with a 900 Mhz Duron (which some say is better than a Celeron any day) runs quite well, faster than my PIII 550 Desktop any way. It comes with Windows XP and MS Works and some other poopy software, which I uninstalled so i could put what I wanted on it.
Consider this if you purchase this machine you get:
900 Mhz Duron with 256MB PC133 SDRAM, a 20GB Hard drive, an 8x DVD, a 14.1 XGA TFT Active Matrix, a 4X AGP with VIA ProSavage KN1334, JBL Pro Audio Speakers with Bass Reflex
Inputs/Outputs S-Video TV-Out, Headphone/Speaker-Out, Microphone-In, 2 USB Ports, an Ethernet Port, an Integrated V.92 56 KBPS modem, a touchpad mouse, and Lithium-Ion battery that lasts 2.5 hours in good conditions (not playing DVD's or games).
This is my first laptop and first Compaq, too and I'm impressed!
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 999.00
Operating System: Windows
Processor: Other
Processor speed: 801-900
RAM: 256
Internal Storage: DVD
Hard Drive (GB): 13-20
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