I'd always built my own computers in the past so when it was time for an upgrade I started looking around for more parts. I tended to stay clear of pre made up computers as there were always bits in them that were either A- not good enough or B- I wouldnt need at all. Besides, mosts companies used to fill them so full of thier own junky software it slowed them down! So when hubby suggested a compaq I was a bit dubious.
A couple of weeks later he bought me a second hand Evo D500. I looked at the Specs and it was way better than my old box of bones. 512 of ram , a nice p4 1.6 chip 20gig hard drive and a cd rom.... nice
The first thing I did was strip it of its case- (i love taking things apart) to find out how easy it would be to add my essential bits and bobs.
The case came apart very easily. It had been fitted with thumb screws at the back, so no fiddling with a screwdriver. The top just slides off do that you can see the three clips at the front which when pressed the front just pops off.
It had special screws for the hard drives and cd roms and (spares too, all in a line at the bottom of the casing) that slide into the special carriage.Everything was very compact but really easy to get to.
It was nice to see three memory slots , so I whacked three strips of 512mhz in it, and it had plenty of PCI slots(3) for my extra sound card.
The thing I liked most about it was that it was so quiet. I do quite a bit of audio recording so I needed a quiet machine, and with this in the cupbourd I hardly heard it until it accessed a CD.
It came with Windows XP and Compaq software (which wasnt intrusive at all) and the Compaq software that you didnt want could be uninstalled without causing any problems. All in All I was very happy with my fast, quiet,new PC .
As for price, like I said, I had this second hand so I dont know the new price, and I dont think compaq sell this actual model anymore, but I wouldnt hesitate to buy another Compaq machine.
So if you are in the market for a good all rounder and you get the chance of a second hand Compaq, they are well worth it
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Reliability
Excellent
Memory / capacity
Excellent
Range of Extra Features
Good
Instruction manual
Good
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