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Summary: Seksee looking laptop for hot price!
Review: The laptop looks very nice and well designed. The colot scheme with silver/carbon black is great. The keyboard is well laid out. The fan isn't noisy and mobile Athlon is great!Battery life is in excess of 3 hrs and laptop doesn't get hot either. The LCD is good and has good range of viewing angle. The warranty support from Compaq is better than HP, atlhough both are same companies now. If you want blue scheme instead of silver try the HP ZE4200 series and its same hardware as Compaq. The prices are low in most local stores than Amazon. Kudos to HP/Compaq for designing such low cost and fully functional laptop.
Rating: 
Summary: Uses copy protection without informing !
Review: This laptop's hard disk/IDE controller/Combo drive collude together to prevent lots of normal things from happenning. Like installation of many softwares from back up copies. Troubles wth DVD's and digital media. Reading CD-R's etc. Imagine spending so much money on laptop which won't play your favorite music or movies! Stay away from these content protection & monitoring (CPRM based?) laptops made by Compaq. Not to mention that they run very hot. And Windows restarts every time you plug in anything into the usb ports. The laptop hard drive is very noisy and so is the flimsy keyboard. The laptop is clumsy & ugly looking. Think carefully before getting this.
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