Laptops > Compaq Laptops

Advantages: Good prices
Disadvantages: Low specification for age, Not Upgradable

The Compaq Armada 100s was the first laptop that I ever purchased, I bought mine second hand, (from a company dealing in refurbished laptops,) last year, as something to use for basic wordprocessing at school. I parted with a months pay and the machine was delivered. Out of the price I could spend on a laptop, I was amazed I could get a Compaq system with a 550mhz processor, whilst the other laptops in this range where lucky to break past the 233mhz ...
...I can not blame Compaq for this failure, laptop hard drives are notoriously tempremental, and this one with five years of service, had a broken controller, thats a fact of life, I parted with £30 and replaced it with a practically identical model. After installing the new hardrive, I reatempted the Windows 2000 install. One brand spanking new Windows 2000 installation later, I now had a computer that to put it bluntly, could possibly loss a race ... Read review

Advantages: good design, speedy, cheap price and all in one
Disadvantages: heavy and the folding point of monitor is easy to be broken

...a all in one computer and it is convience for me to use it. I don't feel any difficult to use the touching mouse. I would like to use this computer again if Compaq makes the harddisk bigger in order for the customers to store more information in their notebook. ... Read review

Advantages: Speed
Disadvantages: Crashes sometimes

How do Dell keep doing this, another amazing laptop for people like me to enjoy. This laptop can have an immensive amount of RAM and Hard Drive put in to it and you can also change colour and pattern to severel differant ones. Has a security fingerprint check to get in the laptop or/and in laptop files. Now that is technology so if any one steals it they wont be able to get on it! Also is designed for storing pictures and movies and games and ... Read review

Advantages: Well-presented, feature-packed laptop
Disadvantages: A touch slow for modern gaming

The Acer Travelmate series come generally very well-equipped to be competent laptop computers for the modern age, and the 7520 is no exception. Using the same Turion 64x2 that is quite standard in its Travelmate range, the 7520 is quick to boot; the 2GB of RAM is quite sufficient for multimedia applications such as watching DVDs - well provided for by a very able DVD drive and a very nicely presented, clear screen. As well as this, the product is ...
...for long periods, with a great touchpad. However, the screen is quite easily scratched and the battery life is really rather poor - typically you can expect approximately 80 mins on 'high performance', or longer on the more frugal but less useful 'balanced' and 'power saver' options. A great value laptop, and a very good buy ... Read review

Advantages: Well-rounded laptop with very good functionality, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not future-proof, but what is?!

When looking for a relatively cheap but well-designed laptop, acer's travelmate series were a particular interest. Suitably powerful for multimedia applications, and generally well-equipped, with an integrated webcam, microphone and a separate graphics card. This does call on the system memory, however, and typically running windows vista will result in the system using almost half its RAM just idling... However, having purchased a similar travelmate, ...
...transported, the battery life in 'high performance' mode is short and the other power modes are less useful. I have experienced issues from new with the battery connection, and the seller - Kikatek, were very unhelpful. As well as not having a phone line at all - communication must take place by email - they were very unwilling to accept that the model had any fault at all... The laptop is a solid buy, just not from Kikatek! ... Read review