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Compaq Presario CQ50-110US 15″ Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)
From Hewlett Packard
List Price: $888.00
Price: $679.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

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Customer Reviews

Great laptop
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.)

Aside from now Webcam - it’s GREAT!
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!!!

Like it but where’s the webcam??
I really like this laptop but I was very dissapointed it did not have the webcam as represented in the photos. I’ve notified amazon - will post the resolution they give me.