HP Compaq Presario CQ60-300 (NP791EA)

Pay attention : The review concerns the HP Compaq Presario CQ60-310ED . However, if you're in the Pricewatch look at the HP Compaq Presario CQ60-300 , then you will be left in the shop to get the 310ED describe. Note, for the 310ED comes with a dual core (AMD 64 X2) CPU. While 300 is supplied with a Sempron! Specifications of CQ60-310ED can be found here . Attention, the codes (NP791EA) are still in line. Note so well on what you buy. Review Packaging About packing I will dirty little words: a simple box with the three basic units that you would expect: battery (with associated power), books and the laptop itself. First impression The laptop looks good. First is that the smooth top with a shiny logo Compaq. The closure of the lid looks like a Macbook from Apple, but it is not magnetically closed. The whole gives a solid impression. The laptop feels solid, it does not crack the casing looks polished. Keyboard When you open the laptop you will have a full keyboard at your disposal. It must be said that the keys on the number pad are smaller. I myself do not use the numpad often, so I have little trouble. Still, it's a nice addition. Now you do not hard to do with the FN key, if you already use a laptop in conjunction with the numpad. For the rest, the keyboard is fine. Soft keystrokes, small spaces between the keys and the type good. Nice detail is that the keys are completed in the 4 corners of the board, an external feature (functional adds nothing), but does indicate the extent to which it is paid to details. Display Since the screen a 15.6 "widescreen, it is laptop especially wide (and not so high). resolution is 1366 by 768 pixels above wide. Coming from a 1280x800 screen, this is hardly noticeable. Especially is the extra space that you now have on the sides. Even with the windows sidebar is still read fine. Picture quality is good. Glossy finish, nice contrast. interesting detail is that the laptop has pretty much states of clarity. I normally 4 to 5 positions used. This sure know tig. Sometimes it will You should keep uberhaupt some brands. FN-Dim/Helder the key GPU & Games Qua graphics power strikes me bad. There is a Nvidia 8200M in. I do not play games like Crysis and have not tried it. I have tried Command & Conquer 3. You can play this game, but you have to be nice to tweak the graphics. Expect no shaders at full speed, but more bescheide extent. It should be mentioned that this differs per game! Counter-Strike: Source plays perfectly namely, everything on high setting. Half-Life 2 plays something smoother. Unreal Tournament 2004 plays well. It strikes me as this laptop has no dedicated video memory. With dedicated video memory, you will still have a much higher performance. For people who occasionally like to play these games, this laptop is ideal. CPU Dual Core (AMD Athlon 64X2) CPU works well. As might be expected of such a CPU spin effortlessly multiple applications together. Heat production The heat output of the laptop is sometimes high. Especially if you play games that questions the GPU you will notice that it is not very pleasant to keep on the lap. What is positive is that the keyboard itself is not very hot. Especially where the speakers (more rearward) are the hot. The warm air is also blown away behind the screen. Noise noise wise, I am very satisfied. Even with the fans, with a game I do not find it distracting. Once you get to take it easy (e-mail watching, surfing) the laptop is virtually silent. Sound is decent. It does not sound full, especially the bass is lacking. This is to be expected with laptops. battery / energy consumption, I have a little test to see how long you can work without power. with the laptop Using the profile "balanced" in Windows Vista, the screen two steps lighter (= more power consumption), I have more than 1.5 hours (94 minutes) to work. This is 'normal' use. This implies a windows update install, watch some mail, surfing. After an hour, I turned to music to iTunes and sync with your iPod. Thus it increased noticeably. would I have to do more tests (eg more use or less) to see if you can do with the battery charge and how it performs at high consumption. Others Further extensions: 1 HDMI output. 3X USB 2.0. 1 Ethernet connection. CD / DVD (Dual Layer) burners with Litescribe. 5 in 1 Card reader present. 250GB hard drive. Recovery DVDs are not included recovery DVDs before so you might want to do something with the laptop you have to create recovery DVDs themselves. This can only once. The process takes a long time, in my opinion, especially since you have to make only two DVDs and 'prepare' it for longer than fifteen minutes if it takes. Then burning there (which he does at full-speed) you certainly almost an hour spent on the making of the DVD. Closing Finally, you have a tight budget, you surf, email and occasionally wants you play a (older) game? Then this laptop ideal! history: - faulty enter away - Introduction adjusted. - cups attached - Recovery DVDs cup added - battery / energy consumption is added - in "other" added the hard disk