Compaq Presario CQ50-110US 15-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)

List Price: $888.00 Discount Price: $723.56

Features:

• 15.4-inch (Diagonal) High Definition BrightView Widescreen Display, 1280 x 800 Resolution
• 2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Dual Core Mobile Processor with 1 MB L2 Cache
• 3072 MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), 200 GB (4200RPM) Hard Drive (SATA), NVIDIA GeForce 8200M with up to 1407 MB Total Available Graphics Memory
• LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support, 802.11b/g WLAN
• Windows Vista Home Premium, dims in inches: 10.07 (W) x 1.75 (L) x 14.05 (H) approx., 6.5 lbs.

Accessories:
Targus TLE400 17 Deluxe Leather Notebook Case	Targus CVR217 Neoprene Slip Case for 17"" Notebooks (Black/Blue)"	Targus TCG200 17 CityGear Miami Messenger Notebook Case	Targus TCM004US Messenger 15.4" Notebook Case	Acer AL1916WAB 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Customer Reviews:

Aside from now Webcam - it's GREAT! [Posted on 2008-08-10]
Got this from competitor for considerably cheaper - but it's amazing! The 3Gb of Ram and dedicated NVidia 8200M video card really make it a nice, Vista-friendly laptop. Add in the card reader, wireless G, and Litescribe DVD burner, and it's hard to complain.

Stop whining about the webcam! It's $20 difference - review the laptop, folks!!!

Great laptop [Posted on 2008-08-12]
I spent a lot of time researching laptops in my price range and finally went with this one. The 3 GB of ram is fantastic and the video card, while not top of the line, is a class 3 card. The other one I was looking at, also made by HP, had a class 1 video card (the lowest rating) and cost $100 more. I am running games that are not super new, but still require a decent video card and there is no problem with them. Some of the settings are turned off or down, but the game still looks great. This one also had more hard drive space as well. There are a couple of things that I do want to mention, but they are not enough to not give it a score of 5.

The DVD drive door clicks loudly as it pops out and when you push it back in. I am used to it now, but it freaked me out a bit the first few times. And if you run it on high performance (I do since almost always plugged in) it can get very hot. Since I use a lap desk again not too bad of an issue, but just wanted to let people know.

I also installed a wireless router in my place and the laptop saw it right away and connected to it with no problems. I have had no problems with Vista except one game that is 3 years old is said to have issues, but the game runs fine as far as I can tell.

I also have a laptop that is owned by work. I can carry both in my shoulder bag no problem. I wouldn't want to do lots of walking with both of them, but for a short distances it is fine.

A great little laptop with some nice features.

(I didn't even really look at the pictures so I hadn't noticed that one had a webcam. I read all the specs to see what it was coming with.)

Review of Compaq service [Posted on 2008-09-19]
This is not a review of this specific model but of Compaq service. I purchased a Presario F762NR four months ago. The screen has now failed. I returned it to Compaq for repair and they refuse to honor the warranty unless I buy an additional warranty. The cost to replace the screen is $2 less than what I paid for the laptop. I have owned many Compaq products in the past and currently have 4 in the house. Compaq service used to be excellent; things have changed. I will no longer purchase any Compaq product and recommend that you consider the risks involved.

No Firewire Port, No Port for Firewire Port Card... [Posted on 2008-09-21]
It's got an Athlon dual core 2gHz processor, 3gB of RAM, a 200 gig hard drive, Vista Premium with Windows video editing program, and Windows DVD mastering program, a DVD burner, with lite-scribe...does the printing right on the disc itself. Wow!

This should be so beautiful! I have so much video that needs to be edited, and people around the world that would LOVE to see what I have on that shelf of tapes. While it's still no professional unit, this thing, with all its features and specs should be able to do a decent job at home video production, right?

But for one thing. No Firewire port. No place to plug a Firewire port card into. Oh, there's three USB ports, and one memory card port, but no possible way to load DV into this thing.



Then, what's the point!? (sigh)

Great laptop even if it is missing fewthings [Posted on 2008-09-28]
This laptop was a replace for my 5 years old laptop, the laptop is fast and 3GB make it awesome. The screen is very glossy and the colors are sharp. No web cam, i don't care because my x-laptop does not have one, no firewire, my x-laptop had one but I never use it. I still need to test the battery life. The DVD clicks when you close it, but I get used on it. The laptop is not heavy nor light. It was a great deal with these specs. The only thing that I miss is my Windows XP

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