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    Compaq Presario CQ50

    Discussion in 'HP' started by hitsho, Jul 21, 2008.

  1. hitsho

    hitsho Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everybody,
    iam going to buy a laptop as soon as possible. i am very interested in the Presario CQ50. but i just know nothing about it except its specifics.
    Processor AMD Turion x2 RM-70
    3 Gigs of RAM
    Nvidia "integrated" 8200M

    Any body here bought this machine? i am really interested to know about quality of the screen, battery life, and the overall performance.
    waiting for some help which i will appreciate so much.
    Thanks
     
    hitsho, Jul 21, 2008
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    cq50FUD Notebook Consultant

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    the graphics card is great and better than the intel integrated graphics card most laptops come with. the 3 gigs of ram makes it faster, but it could have more (ram = better preformance im pretty sure) the processor on mine is a amd athlon 64 x2 dualcore, which makes mine fast, yours is a newer processor i think, im not sure. i own it and im happy could have more user-friendly parts like the scrolltouch/mousepad/mousebottons they are clanky and hard to scroll, but thier is a lock mouse option which is great for some users. the battery life is not top notch and you may need to buy a new one to actually use it mobile, but its fine lasts for abut 2 hours and 30 mins. the overal preformance on this computer depends on what you will be using it for. also, the heating on this system may get a little hot, so you might have to invest in a cooling pad for 15 dollars or less.

    i use it for web surfing, messaging, and typing.

    but i bought this laptop for 400$ so their was no saying no to that price.
     
    cq50FUD, Dec 31, 2008
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