I fully regret buying this
Written: Aug 04 '03
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Pros: It gets you online for research, small, light weight, the speakers are pretty good
Cons: Has had numerous major equiptment failures
The Bottom Line: If you enjoy spending time at the computer repair shop this is the computer for you.
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| kirbygirl101's Full Review: Compaq Presario 1200-XL105 |
My computer tech co-workers told me to avoid compaq. I wish I listened. when i bought this machine I took out a 3 year warenty from best Buy. I am glad I did because the repairs for this machine in 10 months cost more then what it was worth.
This machine had a tendency to fire out at the worst possible times when you were using it. The mother board of the machine fired out 3 times. Each repair would have cost between $600-$800. Right here is where the cost of repairs was more than the machine itself. I would be working on the computer and all of a sudden the screen would go black, the computer would turn off and not come back on. I'd bring it back to best buy and they would ship it to Compaq for repairs under the Best Buy warrenty. These repairs were not covered under the compaq warranty.
The hard drive fired once on it. I lot all data on the computer including precious family pictures. My mother has a compaq 1700 which hard drive fried out. She like me had the Best buy warrenty.
After my fourth crash and burnon that computer Best buy deamed the ocmputer a lemon under the warrenty and I had it replaced with a new machine for the cost of the orignal compaq. best Buy offered me another Compaq computer which I refused due to my experiences. I instead got a toshiba satillite seris 307. Best lap top ever. I had never had a problem. It is now old reliable. I went from a 12Gig hard drive to a 60 Gig hard drive for the same price. 700 MGZ to 2.4 GHZ. Go with a Toshiba I recommend them. If you have a thick wallet and enjoy spending time at the computer repair shop and loosing valuable data compaq is your buy.
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Amount Paid (US$): 2000
Operating System: Windows
Processor: Intel Pentium III
Processor speed: 701-800
Screen Size: 15 inches
Internal Storage: CD-ROM
Hard Drive (GB): 13-20
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