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How do Compaq Presario notebooks stack up?

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Turf03

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I am considering buying a Compaq Presario 2525US notebook for around $1500

Here are the specs. Is there better for that price?

Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4
System Bus Speed: 266 MHz
RAM: 512 MB
RAM Type: SDRAM
L2 Cache: 512 KB
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Bundled Software: Roxio Easy CD Creator, Microsoft Works 6.0, Quicken
Finanical Center by Intuit, Microsoft Encarta Online Deluxe Encyclopedia -
one year subcription
Size: 60 GB IDE
CD-RW: 24x (read), 8x (write), 8x (rewrite)
DVD-ROM: 8x
Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive
Graphics Card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON
Graphics RAM: 64 MB
Display Diagonal Size: 15.0 inches
LCD Native Resolution: 1024-by-768
LCD Type: active-matrix


 
Yeah, you can do a lot better. Especially if you care about games, that's a crappy system. That's integrated video, not a real Radeon. You can get MUCH higher-end hardware from Dell for cheaper (no idea which is better quality though). And I've seen a slightly higher-end Toshiba with a 16MB Geforce 4 Go 420 for $950. I'd rather have it than that system if they were the same price. Even Sony's brand new GRT notebooks can be custom built for cheaper with a 16" screen and better graphics processor.

One thing I'll say for the HP systems, they do seem to have really nice feeling keyboards.
 
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