Compaq Presario V2110F

I am now thinking of purchasing the Compaq Presario V2110F laptop with the following specs:

40Gb Harddrive, 512 MB RAM, 1.3GHZ Celeron M 350 CPU.

I'm going to get a very good deal for this machine, and in fact other machines if I want as well, but this one I'm getting a better deal because it is on clearance at the store I'm buying from. It is so cheap it is very tempting, but am I going to be facing consequences for buying such a cheap laptop? As in, are there any known problems with Compaq, be it a lack of technical support or poor build quality, that I should be aware of before making my final decision?


Also, should I really consider seriously paying about $300 extra (canadian dollars) for a machine with a Pentium M processor instead? Is the difference going to be worth the extra money? I am not going to play games nor do anything overly "high-tech" on it, mainly going to do university schoolwork, a little bit of programming with Java, and browsing the net.

Thanks!

 

There should be no problems reliability wise for the Compaq and tech support from my experiences has been decent. I have had my V2000 for over a month now and the performance has been flawless.

Regarding the Celeron M vs Pentium M. If you have the budget then the Pentium m is the better option since it will perform better and will give better battery life than the celeron M since it uses advanced power saving features(like CPU throttling) lacking in the celeron M.

But for general use the Celeron M will perform quite well.

Compaq Presario R3340US
AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB, 80GB 5400rpm
15.4" Brightview Widescreen.
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Compaq Presario V2000
Intel P-M 725, 14" Brightview Widescreen
60gb 5400rpm, 512MB RAM.

 

Thanks for the reply.

Can anyone else give me their 2 cents?

I think I will pay the extra and get the right CPU. However, I have heard from various people that Compaq has poor reliability and I should look into IBM, but those are so much more expensive......[V]

 

What is your budget? As long as it is new, you will have a one year warranty. I don't think you will have any performance problem with what you are doing, but you will get much better battery life from a Pentium M. So if you want/need to be mobile, the Pentium M is the way to go. I had a Presario. I had to contact support a few times. I didn't have any problems, but I was not having any support issues. Their online chat works pretty good. At least I thought so.






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Thinkpad T41:
* 1.6Ghz Pentium M * 768Mb Memory * 40Gb Hitachi 7200RPM * Panasonic UJ-845-B DVD+RW *

 

I'm now looking at HP's business laptop lineup. Those have really reasonable prices for great specs, and also the corporate models offer 3 year warranty as well.

But, my question is, what limitations do these "business" laptops have over regular consumer laptops? can't handle graphics-demanding videogames? Which I don't play anyways.

 

No, I think its ususally the opposite. Business laptops aren't designed for gaming, they are designed for productivity.

 

Thanks for the advice, Venombite.

I have just spent a whole day researching laptops [ ] and turns out the HP NC6000 seems to be one of the most affordable and reliable laptop. Only 1 year warranty but have read that it is very solidly built. The only Con I see for it is its bad looks. I honestly think it's lame to have the silver bordering.

Another HP business laptop I have looked at is the NX6110, which is about $200 canadian cheaper but is heavier.

 

The funny thing, HP has designed their business units to be fairly good for gaming. Their GPU's range from the X300 to the X600 with 64-128MB of memory. IBM's are probably the ones you're thinking about. Their business notebooks are just designed for business and nothing else (32MB of shared video memory or 64MB of dedicated video with a cheap GPU).

Ricola_pak, you may want to be careful about which "Business" class notebook you get. Their NC/NW series, which are for enterprise levels, has the 3 year warranties, but their NX series, for small businesses, only has 1 year warranty.

-Vb-

 

ricola_pak

How did you like nx6110? I am thinking of buying this on the internet for $650.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by srps

 

i recently bought the nx6110 and so far it's been great. battery life is close to 3 hours. 15 inch screen looks like it should, its nothing amazing. screen had no dead pixels. looks pretty plain but sturdier than most consumer models. i was surised by the keyboard, it feels very solid and it dosen't bend like some compaqs /dells. it weighs around 6 lbs which is pretty light for my standards. im sure theres other notebook with more features but build quality on the nx6110 is better than other notebooks in its price range.

just my .02