I bought mine in Jan 2009, and within a year it started playing up. If I didn't use it for a half hour or so, then it would go into standby mode, and then it wouldn't revive itself! The only thing you could do was hold the power button down and shut it off, take the power lead in, turn it over and give it a few pats on the back and then plug it back in again and hope for the best (this is what the guys at the computer shop told me to do!) Ended up also having to put an external hard drive on, as was advised I may have too much data on it, however, the problem still persists. I can't afford a new one, so I am putting up with this at the moment. ...  Read the complete review

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