Compaq Presario 1200 Series Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

Lady's and Gentleman, FLAWS!! I bought one of these for a company rep, never again! Compaq have gone down hill ever since being bought over by HP (Hewlett Packard) in 2002. Their laptops have dropped dramatically, in technology spec. I own 2 companies, but before that I worked as a sales person in Dixons and when I heard we ...  Read the complete review

An unreliable, slow motherboard breakdown unit! - Advantages: packed full of hardware, lots of software - Disadvantages: Can't cope with so much hardware in such a small laptop

Finally a computer that seems to stand up to being carted round and used frequently. I have used it for over 2 years and have little desire to change it. Disadvantages: 1. Little low on RAM on purchase models - tend to be only 32MB - I added more RAM after the first year to allow me to run more applications concurrently, and I have ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I've had my laptop for about 4 months now, and although I had problems at first, I solved them all now. When I went on the net I could never connect for more than 5 minutes. But after having downloaded a file from the compaq site for the modem, I don't have any problems anymore now. Other than that I have not had ...  Read the complete review

I've had a Compaq Presario 1260 for over 2 years. I've lugged it around the country, train, plane, boat and in the back of cars and it's been handled fairly "robustly" handled at times. Never once has it let me down. Easy to use - easy to read. I work as a computer trainer/consultant and I often use it for teaching ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review