Compaq Presario A935EA

A reliable laptop for home use. Robust as I have stood on mine and it is fine. It also survuved a small swater spillage. Compared to some laptops it has a traditional, slightly outdate appearance but is easy to use as everything is where you expect it to be. It processes fast enough although I have had some delays when playing a movie and surfing the net at the same time. All other application though have run excellently. The storage capacity mine holds many movies and tracks without slowing performance. The battery life is good for a laptop in this range, a movie will play for around an hour and I have worked on a spread sheet for wel over 2.5 hours. The box on the ...  Read the complete review

This laptop was bought to be a work from home computer with enough power to enable a few applications to be open at once (email, spreadsheet, word processing, etc) and have a large enough screen to be usable. It wins on all these counts. It has a bright sharp screen and its keyboard is very usable. It is just the right size to sit on the kitchen table and it is fairly silent most of the time. When you want to use if for leisure purposes the 17 inch screen hits the mark as it is still small enough to move it around the house and browse the internet on the arm of your sofa. It has all the standard features like usb, SD memory card reader, ethernet, 56k internal modem, DVD ...  Read the complete review