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5.0 stars
"BEST BUY, AMD CHIPS ARE GOLD"
Pros: Nice looking, doesn't overheat, very quiet, light, great graphics, fast in NORMAL applications including Office, Photoshop, Quark, ETC (not Doom 3 gamer dorks), handy dandy buttons for sound/wireless
Cons: slow slow startup, mine has not vga (but does have S-video so no prob), comes WITH TOO MUCH FREAKIN SOFTWARE so that you have to uninstall this and that for good speed. Memory-wise not efficient.
Summary: This is a great buy. Compaq Presarios with AMD technology are in general a great buy. Cnet and other review sites are dominated by gamer geeks. So is best buy, comp usa, etc. They use Doom 3 and Operation Blow the Crap Out of Them as a standard for rating laptops. Well Hello there world, not all of us buy laptops to play online games in Starbucks or type out Powerpoint presentations in flight. This is a money computer. I got it way cheap, the Turion chip is faster than Centurions when it comes to stuff I use-- internet related applications, multitasking especially- word, photoshop, adobe, etc. And you can keep the thing on all day without overheating. It's quiet as a mouse. It's lightweight and cool looking and comes with XP pro. When buying a laptop consider what you will use it for-- I take the thing to the library or to Panera, use the wireless (nifty little blue button on top), do my research, write my papers, surf the internet, play a little NHL hockey. I don't get on geek chat boards and brag about my graphics frag rate or whatever they do.
Even a lower grade sempron will accomplish this. I see these chumps in my classroom with 2000 dollar pentium dells-- what are they doing? Taking notes. You could do this with a typewriter. PLUS, my wife is a teacher. This computer has all the right ports in all the right places. An S-Video to plug into the TV, projector. USBs on both sides. Firewire. Mouse, keyboard. You can really waste a 2,000 dollar notebook by putting the ports in the wrong places. I found this out on my last one when I had to cross the streams to get internet and printer and digital camera up at the same time. PLUS, a DVD double layer included. Great buy and thanks AMD and Compaq HP for sticking it to the man.
