Compaq Presario 1200 Series

The Compaq Preasario 1245 is now an old machine. I bought mine in late 1999. You'd be lucky to find one in the shops, but they are cropping up quite frequently on Ebay or second-hand. Hopefully you will learn from my mistake... I bought the Compaq Presario 1245 to replace my old laptop, which had been a shop-built number. To begin with, I was fairly impressed. The extra buttons below the touchpad (Easy Access Buttons, apparently) are of variable use. It's nice to have the external volume control so easy to get at, and the scrolling buttons are good too, although I had trouble getting them to work with some programs. The Internet buttons ...  Read the complete review

Compaq are sure becoming leaders in producing high quality laptops that are extremely good value for money and highly specified. I got an incredible deal at pc world when I bought my Compaq Presario 1200 XL-103, this is basically an internet pc notebook crammed with all the software you’d ever need. Compaq call it an ‘internet pc’ because it has easy access one touch buttons which open your search page, e-mail, shopping pages and information with one touch. Compaq do various configurations of the 1200 with differing specifications – mine originally had a meagre 32MB of RAM, but I have upgraded this to 160MB with the insertion of the memory ...  Read the complete review

The Compaq 1200 series are amazing notebooks, Durable, powerful and economic, this laptop is well worth the Price. The speaker system is brilliant and produces a loud, crisp sound that only a Hi-Fi could beat, with a standard of 64mb it is a very powerful machine but I Would recomend upgrading it 128mb ram. The fact that it is celeron is dissapointing but it still performs very well. The 12.2 inch screen is very good quality and the 6x speed DVDrom is a very large advance on the previous laptops which were only 2x or 4x speed. The Hard drive is a bit of a dissapointment as the standard is only 6gig and has a partition making it confusing at times because the Downloading ...  Read the complete review

Who ever would have thought, just a few years ago, that it was possible to buy a good spec laptop computer for less than £1000! My machine has a pentium 3 processor, 5.6gb HD, 32 meg RAM, CD Rom, Floppy disk drive and built in 56k modem, as well as having a memory expansion slot and preloaded software including Windows 98, Works 2000 and Word 2000! All this for only £899 at PC World! They had 3 different makes/models of laptop for this price but the Compaq had been reduced from £999 and I preferred it because it also has a mouse touch-pad which, although at first I was unsure about, now I love it!!! If you want a laptop for any purpose, I highly ...  Read the complete review

I'm running a series 1200 model 12XL505 running windows ME. I like the way the system is set up and I've not had any real problems in the 4 months I've owned it. I didn't care for the touch-pad built in as they are a bit sensitive and are not friendly to big fingers so I'm running an external optical mouse. The DVD played videos well on a 17" external monitor using the built in connection however TV/VCR RCA connections would have been a nice built in addition. The speakers are not the highest quality and are not recommended for music however voice and sound effects are acceptable. The weight of the system is good however it isn't light ...  Read the complete review