The performance of this laptop is quite good. Very fast booting up. Windows open smoothly. Tasks are handled quite well, even with 2GB of RAM. The 4GB of RAM makes things even better. The Celeron 900 2.2 GHz CPU inside packs quite a punch. Take a look at this benchmark:It is by no means a weak processor. Overall this is a great laptop for $329.00 (BestBuy). Much better than a Netbook for sure (since that is what I was going to buy in the first place). Netbooks have no CD or DVD units, only 1GB of RAM, Slow Atom CPUs and 8 to 10 inch screens and cost over $350.00 (a good one). This laptop simply beats the netbooks in price, power and features. You will not be able to do serious video editing or play online games like Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis or things like that because of the limited video card, but hey let's get real, who uses a laptop to play games anyways? That's what desktops are for. If you are going to be mobile (traveling), going to school or simply work at the office then this is the perfect machine for you. If you are into web surfing, email and Microsoft Office and on a budget then look no further. For the price, you are getting a quality built machine with everything you need to do. All that and a little more. The components inside (motherboard and chipset) are all made by Intel.
I highly recommend it.
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This computer is great if your looking for an extremely cheap, full-sized laptop. I had my doubts about the Celeron processor but they were unfounded. The processor opens and closes programs quickly, boots up fast and runs multiple applications at once with no problems or lag. I find 2gb of ram to be the sweet spot when it comes to ram. Unless I'm doing any sort of rendering I'll never max out my ram even with all of my programs open. It is nice to know I can upgrade to 4gb of ram if need be, however. All in all, I could not be happier with the performance of this computer.Performance aside there are some things about the laptop that I dislike. The most annoying thing to me is the lack of dedicated volume control buttons. I need to press the "fn" key along with "+", "-" or "*" to control volume up, volume down and mute. The computer also comes loaded with pre-installed programs so be prepared to spend some time uninstalling them. Personally, I also wish the resolution of the display was higher. 1366x768 is ok but I think 1440x900 is perfect for a computer this size. The plastics of the computer are nothing to write home about either. Generally, the finish of the computer feels as you would expect for the price... cheap.
There are obviously going to be some drawbacks for a computer this inexpensive. Even with everything I dislike about this computer I still think its a great value and would recommend it to anyone shopping for a laptop on a budget. Being the least expensive full-sized notebook I could find, I would go as far ad to say the power and features of this computer are remarkable.
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I've always been picky when it comes to computers. This is my second computer to have a Celeron processor. The first one was crap. Nothing but crap. It overheated all the time and was very slow. I decided to buy this computer after a few of my friends told me that it was better than the previous generation of Celerons. They're right. This computer is capable of out-performing some of the higher-end processors even with a single-core processor.The computer itself is very good. I would recommend this to anyone that wants a good, fast, cheap laptop.
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On February 16 of this year I purchased a Compaq CQ60-615DX laptop. Almost 4 and a half months later I regret nothing.At some point during my college career either my Sophmore or Junior year, which means 2000 or 2001 I purchased my first laptop, a Dell. I used it for a number of years, but one day it just wouldn't start back up. Ever since then I've purchased HP desktop computers, and while I've helped others purchase laptops, and have thought about buying one, the price for the machine I wanted to build just wasn't in line with what I wanted to pay. So instead I'd purchase a nicely built desktop, for a fraction of the price.
After goofing around with some other portable PC options, and debating whether to buy an iPod Touch, I finally settled on picking up this laptop. I trust HP to put together well-built, and dependable machines; three desktops of varying ages, still all working today. I wasn't sure about their Compaq line, but at the beginning of this month, based on this laptop, I picked up a low-cost Compaq desktop, and would do it again in the future. And a co-worker purchased this same computer a few months earlier, and when asked, said he still found it to be a good buy (and this is actually what pushed me over the edge).
I won't speak too much about what the machine contains, since that's well covered in the specs. Instead, I'll tell you how I use it and what I've done to it, with notes as needed for what I've found to be issues.
There's not too much junk installed on the machine, so no issues there; maybe 3 or 4 hours to get those uninstalled, backup discs made, and Windows Updates applied.
While the 2 GB of RAM is okay, since this is a 64-bit machine I purchased 2 2GB sticks (from Crucial) for around $120, with shipping. It's unfortunate that it comes with two 1 GB sticks, but ... I did this 2 and a half months after I purchased the machine, so clearly it's more of a personal choice (I do Web development and wanted to be able to run various systems on VirtualBox).
I've debated following the advice of another reviewer and swapping in a more powerful video card (Windows experience is 3.3 because of it, although Windows 7 starts up and runs fine), but with the Web surfing (handles Flash-heavy sites fine, as well as Netflix streaming) and development (mostly in Visual Studio 2010; have run Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 on VirtualBox) that I do on the machine, I haven't felt the need. (Office 2010 also handles well.)
Wireless (B/G/N) has worked great, although I've had to manually turn it off and back on twice after it lost my signal, which is amazingly simple. (A third time I ended up powercycling my router, so I assume there were larger issues.)
The left mouse button does seem a little unresponsive at times (3 or 4 times), but if nothing else, there's always USB mice, which I've taken to using when I'm at home, which is where this computer gets most of it's use, as I've shut down one of my desktop machines that I always had up and running for surfing and etcetera.
Almost every day I lug the machine to work and pull it out during lunch to work on one thing or another. I purchased an HP EZ141AA Nylon Value Case, and while at first it seemed like it was going to be too small, it actually works really well. I highly recommend this bag, but if want to lug a number of other items within it, you probably want to look for something larger.
Overall, I give this computer 5 of 5 stars and recommend it highly (and have to my sister and another co-worker).
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