Compaq Presario 1200 Notebook (700-MHz Pentium III, 64 MB RAM, 6 GB hard drive)

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Summary: stay away
Review: this computer sucks! I can not stress that enough. I have had this dog now for 3 years and it is awful. My mother brought me a printer for Christmas last year it and it didn't work. In fact the computer crashed!And this was the printer recomended for this laptop!! Next things the keys began to stick after 6 months. of course Compac staff is NO help. First off they don't speak very good english, and then they get mad at YOU for not understanding what they are saying. Also, they have these keys around the mouse for retriving your mail and for shopping--very easy to hit these key by accident--only if you use companies associated with them, well if you hit these keys your stuck and you can't get out of the set up form without setting up an account and it is a major problem, if you have a dead line to meet and this computer won't let you out. Another thing when ever you get online suddenly Compaq pops up telling you to register once again and it keeps on doing it. Anoying really, even with the fact that you already registered 3 years ago. Do yourself favor and walk away from this dog. I just placed an order for a Sony laptop one of my coworkers has and they love it so we'll see. But this dog is a machine I will have it's memory wiped out and then I will smash it with a sledge hammer! Best to put it out of it's misery.

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Summary: It knows how to handle itself
Review: well, i agree with a lot of the people that have written about this computer and have not liked it. i've had mine for about three years and i started having problems with it after about a year and a few months. i get tons of illegal operation messages. my right mouse button got all messed up and is way too sensitive now. the whole mouse thing just gets sensitive sometimes even though i have a cord mouse now. the cursor jumps sometimes when i'm typing because of the mouse being so sensitive. it is so annoying sometimes. i have a small hard drive space and need to get it upgraded but the only way to do that is by bringing it back to where i bought it or sending it back to compaq. being a college student i couldn't do that during the school year because i needed it. but christmas of 2001 i had to have it reformatted because the stupid thing just died on me. it started having problems and then just died. i was so mad. trust me, don't buy this model. it'll be money wel saved and spent elsewhere on a better computer.

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Summary: so many problems....
Review: well, i agree with a lot of the people that have written about this computer and have not liked it. i've had mine for about three years and i started having problems with it after about a year and a few months. i get tons of illegal operation messages. my right mouse button got all messed up and is way too sensitive now. the whole mouse thing just gets sensitive sometimes even though i have a cord mouse now. the cursor jumps sometimes when i'm typing because of the mouse being so sensitive. it is so annoying sometimes. i have a small hard drive space and need to get it upgraded but the only way to do that is by bringing it back to where i bought it or sending it back to compaq. being a college student i couldn't do that during the school year because i needed it. but christmas of 2001 i had to have it reformatted because the stupid thing just died on me. it started having problems and then just died. i was so mad. trust me, don't buy this model. it'll be money wel saved and spent elsewhere on a better computer.

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Summary: Not the best laptop, but a good bargain.
Review: You'll probably find these things I'm about to explain on any Compaq laptop computer, but it has a paint program, games, wordpad, internet trials, and many more stuff on it. But it works great for its price. It's not too fast, but there are so many options on this computer that you can change. Plus the screen savers are awesome. So are the desktop's picturs. Though the paint program is not as good as Mac's and neither is the word processor. But you do get Microsoft Word. And adding software or hardware is incredibly easy. It has lots of memory and you can even reduce the size of your files if you find out how. The games are entertaining, mostly card. It has the Media Player, which means you can copy cds off the internet or off of a cd into your pc to listen at any times. Great laptop overall.