Compaq Presario CQ60-212EM

Rubbish. My wireless and sound failed within a day. Restore did not work and back-up disk failed to create properly as I was "not an administrator".

Compaq customer service kept referring me to PC world despite me not having bought my PC there. Rosario on the support line kept telling me that she did not have the expertise to help me.

I asked for a copy of the installation disks and was told that I would have to pay £69.95 for the privilege. Now I am writing this review wherever I can to help others before they fall victim to this con.

Buy Fujitsu their helpline is first class!

The Compaq Presario CQ60 has proved to be very good value for money. I paid £380 in January '09 and it has worked perfectly since. The wireless has a good range and the screen quality is outstanding. Everything else works how it should and the only real negative is a not-so-great battery life (approx 2 hrs on power saver). All in all, good for games (mine has a separate graphics card - not sure if standard?), word processing, internet and general use. One thing I particularly like is the larger screen size that results from having an integrated number pad on the keyboard. However the larger size does result in a heavy laptop. As of yet I have had no ...  Read the complete review

I personally find this laptop has got big enough ram 1 gb /hard drive 120gb, to suit me, and i do use the laptop for a good three or four hours a day. The HP software that comes with the laptop is very good, the Hp Total Care advisor gives you alot of information about your laptops performance. There are 3 usb ports, a memory card reader, dvd re-writer, and ethernet connection port aswell as others, but i dont use the other ones. The screen is a good size, 16 inch i think. And there is good quality sound coming from the speakers, which is a good bonus. If i had to complain about one thing, it would be the battery life. It lasts about 2 hours if used ...  Read the complete review