The “Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX” is labeled as the true budget laptop. At $349, it includes “Intel Celeron processor”, 2GB Ram, a 250 GB hard drive, integrated Intel graphics chip and a 15.6” Display. Presario has still lot more to offer; it comes with roomy keyboard and well sized touchpad, bigger display and has solid in construction. It is worth more than Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 which is slower and cheaper than Presario.
If you are tired of cramped keys and small screens in the netbooks, you can look for this Presario. Similar to netbooks, it is powered by single processor which restricts the app performance, especially during multitasking. It handles basic tasks smoothly.
The Compact doesn’t feel like low end laptops. The laptop’s chassis has glossy plastic feel. A small Q logo is present in the middle of the lid. The screen has matte black finish and its wrist rest has silver finish. A long hinge is long enough to sturdy grip. The keyboard is rooms with a dedicated number pad. The matte finish keys are well sized. Overall, the typing is comfortable and convenient on this laptop. The mouse buttons are present at the bottom of the touch pad. The touchpad is in good size and offer smoother gliding.
The Presario weighs around 6.2 pounds, relatively heavy comparing to its rivals. It sports 15.6 inches screen, which offers the native resolution of 1,366×768-pixel and aspect ratio of 16:9. The display looks bright and crisp with vibrant colors. The screen is capable of displaying 720p video. Its integrated graphics chip “Intel GMA 4500M” is delivers smoother video experience. The Presario has Altec Lansing branded speakers, sounds reasonably better. They are loud and clear at higher volumes.
Obliviously, the Presario doesn’t cater higher end features like HDMI, eSATA ports and Express card slot. Sadly, the media card and web cam are present in this Presario. The Presario compromises little with port configuration comparing to its rival laptops. There is dedicated button to turn on/off the Wi-fi and you can also disable the touchpad to avoid accidental clicks. The best thing is that offers wireless N support along with 802.11 g Wi-Fi. It has 3 USB ports, an Ether port, a VGA out and few audio ports.
The “Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX” is powered by single core Intel Celeron 900 processor that runs at 2.2GHz frequency. It also has 1MB of Cache Memory. The Presario features 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM. The Presario outperforms the AMD Athlon 64 QL-62 processor (1.6GHz) powered Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 in many performance tests. It provides faster 250GB of hard drive. Windows 7 Home Premium is preinstalled with this laptop; with this system appears pretty responsive and peppy. Overall, the performance is satisfactory. It handles photoshop, iTunes and web browsing with some sluggishness, but it is acceptable.
The Presario has six cell batteries. It manages to offer battery life of 2 hours 45 minutes on continuous video playback. The battery may last more on performing normal tasks like Office tasks and casual web browsing.
HP includes a standard one year warranty on parts and labor. HP offers 24×7 telephone support and email support. HP lets you to live chat with their technical representative. It offers details FAQ book; you can troubleshoot the problem yourself. You can also extend the warranty for this laptop, but it may cost some more bucks.
the only prob we have is…..sometimes when it reads a disc like say sims2 it makes a load noise and if you let it do this it really gets the disc hot i mean almost melting hot but it burns great and really been a swell piece of machine. not much room but cant really complain cause the price was amazing and going on bout two years now no error but ive kept excellent care…
Had this computer for about 2 years loved it unfortunately my screen (top pf laptop)broke off after that my computer wouldn’t connect to the internet and what is a laptop without getting on the internet. However, overall I did enjoy the computer and would buy another I just hate how cheap it was made.
My mom has this laptop, and it sucks.
I hope I get a good gaming laptop soon.
This isn’t fast enough, and it is slow for the emulators I like to play on.
Get a Core i7 and NVIDIA combo or something like that.
Hmm, for a single core computer it pretty much does ok but the battery life thing is a turn off. Mine lasts about an hour or two depending on whether I am playing a graphics intensive game or not. I have the screen set to high because it is a bit dim in bright light. Works fine plugged in though. I probably will trade it in with my microcenter service contract. I understand if it breaks (I bought it broken) Microcenter will xfer the purchase price to a new laptop. I have to find out more about it. I do like the smaller size but really would rather have a dual core.
Hey you want to by mine. The Shell is great but my hard disk is gone. lol
I purchased my Compaq 13 months ago. I really didnt have any complaints until yesterday when my hard disk went out. I didnt purchase the Extended warrenty… I had no warning it just died. Geek Squad at Best buy ( where I bought it) couldnt even get it to come up in “safe mode”. All I can say is get the extended warrenty. And You guys that have had yours a year or so look out!
P.S. – I have it plugged in at this very moment to another screen using the VGA output. I am waiting on my repair box. So everything else still works. The screen does not.
beware!!!! The screen will go out on you! I purchased mine less than a year ago and have been very very pleased until my screen randomly quit working! Don’t be fooled by the cheapness. You get what you pay for. Luckily it is under warranty and YESSS I purchased the extended warranty. Worth every penny.
OMG! the same happened to me! i have less than a year with this compaq, it was working good, then pufff bye screen, and the power button turned crazy! and they said that i was the BIOS program but its kind of weird,it was working really good then the laptop died u_u can u tell me what they said to you?
It’s Wonderful.
I was very happy with this until now, a yr and a half after i bought it. All of a sudden the touch pad wont work.. didn’t use it much anyway. Now the keyboard stops working at random., have to reboot to get it back. It does not work at all until windows boots up, so if it I try to boot into safe mode there is no way to move it from the default. Arrow keys, tab, space, enter, nothing works. So there for trying to push F1 at start to get into bios setup dont work either. This “nice cheap” computer has turned into “POS from hell”. Getting very close to going in the trash.
I’ve had the Compaq Presario CQ60 615DX for less than a year and it sucks to say the least. The battery doesn’t last more than 60mins off the charger. Not to mention the newest problem I’ve encountered, the plastic around the screen is coming off making it unable to open or close all the way also the round plastic part or semi-circle that allows it to open and close is also splitting at its seam.
I bought one refurbished and it seems the battery runs down fast even though I have only used it for an hour and a half. It seems quite fast and the mouse pad is great. I am very happy with it. I bought it with the repair plan at microcenter which sounds like that was a good idea. I am guessing the battery lasts two hours playing netflix. I dont think batteries are too expensive with these going to check that out. I like it better than my friends 600 dollar hp laptop mainly due to the mouse which is very responsive compared my friends which is practically useless.
i have a compaq cq60-615dx and it worked fine for 3 months, now ive noticed it wont turn on at all. then all of a sudden it will turn on after a while. dont know why but i hope compaq fixes this ****.
oops, it has actually only been 11 days.
I wanted to see some feedback from others… Battery Life is pretty bad. It seems I’m always plugging in. When I’m not plugged in I have to put my screen brightness all the way down to get better battery life. I can’t run much either or within an hour the battery is done. Another problem I’ve noticed is the wifi keeps cutting out. At my school (I need to ask some other people if they noticed this), at home, at starbucks, etc. I also noticed sometime it won’t turn on so I have to pop the battery out and put it back in. I’ve only had this laptop for 13 days so…I don’t know what’s up.
well i have had my Compaq for about a year now and it works great. i love it it is very useful and i have never had any of the problems you have mentioned above. the settings have to do with the short battery life i normally get about 3 hours on my laptop which is not bad in my opinion. i would recommend that if your problems continue to call hp since it has warranty for up to a year. hope i helped
I have the same problem, my note is pretty new and the battery only last one hour!