Compaq Presario 725US Notebook (Athlon-4 1600+, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive)

Product Description

The Compaq Presario creates the perfect balance of exceptional performance and lightweight convenience in a multimedia notebook. Its innovative design packs everything you need for the ultimate multimedia excitement. Breeze through your most demanding programs with an amazingly fast processor, generous cache and high-performance graphics. Watch your multimedia applications spring to life with the large display that features brilliant, lifelike colors and striking contrast. The Presario is the perfect all-in-one complement for the go-anywhere enthusiast who insists on the ultimate quality and performance that only comes from Compaq.Would you like a smart solution with an affordable price tag? Compaq Presario 700 series is a combination of incredible performance and affordability. With its incredible performance and all-in-one convenient design, the Presario 700 series is the affordable mobile solution for personal productivity or your small business. AMD PowerNow! Technology increases battery life by up to 30% without compromising performance and enables the notebook to run quieter and cooler.

Amazon.com Product Description

Compaq's 700 series of Presario notebook computers may target the home and home office user rather than the more demanding business professional, but that doesn't necessarily mean it sacrifices performance. A perfect case in point is the new flagship of the 700 series, the stunningly powerful Presario 725US.

If speed is what you crave, the 725US delivers. Rated at 1.4 GHz, its AMD mobile Athlon 4 1600+ processor is one of the fastest you'll find inside any portable computer. This robust chip is equipped with AMD's QuantiSpeed architecture to further aid in the collection and distribution of data, and a generous 512 KB of ultrahigh-speed Level 2 cache to enhance performance during complex computing situations. Factor in the system's 256 MB of 133 MHz SyncDRAM (upgradeable to 384 MB) and 32 MB ProSavage KN133 video card, and you have a power plant capable of running just about anything thrown its way.

Sporting a sleek design and a futuristic two-tone, black-on-silver color scheme, the Presario 725US looks substantially more stylish than many of its notebook peers. It tips the scales at a comfortable 6.4 pounds and measures in with a slightly larger than average 10.6-by-12.4-by-1.64-inch profile. Compaq has put these dimensions to good use by installing several desirable perks, such as a large 20 GB hard disk, a 3.5-inch disk drive, a 56K ITU V.92 PCI modem, and a combination CD-RW/DVD drive. The latter offers solid but not spectacular performance, playing compact discs at 24x, recording and re-recording them at 4x, and playing DVDs at 6x.

You'll watch your movies and other applications on a crisp 14-inch LCD display capable of 1,024 x 768 resolution and 16 million colors, and listen to your CDs and multimedia through a high-end bass reflex JBL speaker system that delivers surprising bottom-end punch. And you won't have to press a bunch of keys to do it. The 725US keyboard is equipped with numerous one-touch multimedia, Internet, and e-mail buttons, plus a scroll wheel and touchpad for convenient navigation.

The unit's roster of ports includes two USB jacks for plug-and-play peripherals such as joysticks and digital cameras, a single parallel port for printers, a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet network connection, an all-purpose PC Card slot, a PS2 jack for a mouse or keyboard, a VGA video-out for external monitors, S-video TV-out, and speaker and microphone ports. Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows XP, and an assortment of Internet, multimedia, and information applications round out this impressive package.

Customer Reviews:

My Compaq Computer Overheats and Shutsdown after 10 minutes.......2005-08-12

I will never buy another compaq notebook. This one i barely used for about 20-30 hours, and compaq will do nothing to help me other than send me to a service center. They want 100 bucks an hour just to diagnose it. Ha - never again Compaq!

This is an Embarrasment For Compaq Sucks BWare.......2005-04-30

First i would like to mentioned that what drew me towards a compaq notebook. Was that I had a compaq desktop running on NT and I was very Impressed because till this day I have not had a problem.

Anyways I thought I would have had the same craftsmanship with a Labtop by Compaq. It was very appealing and had nice features.

This machine started to give me problems right away it kept shutting down and overheating and lagging. Like it was running Pentium I or something it took for ever to start after powering up. I should had known, what are the odds the day I purchased this labtop a customer was bringing one in for service.

This is the worst investment I have ever made. And I feel that I have been ripped off and someone or all of us need to get together so that we can get new computers from Compaq at their cost.

ABSOULTE JUNK!!.......2004-03-05

No sense in repeating everything that has already been stated what is wrong with this POS. Just do a Google search for Presario 700 notebook. IT'S A TOTAL LEMON! WHEN DO WE SUE ...? Overheats Constantly - it's a design problem. Slower than a 386! JUNK! AVOID! I WASTED (money) HARD EARNED DOLLARS DOWN THE DRAIN!

TOTALLY USELESS! DAMN IT!

Another extremely disappointed Compaq user.......2004-02-07

With a little searching, I'm finding that I'm not alone with having a COMPLETE LEMON of a computer! DO NOT BUY! DO SOME RESEARCH FIRST, it's VERY easy! ;)
In summary: I bought this in june 03 from compusa.com as 'refurbished' (NOTE: NEVER BUY REFURBISHED COMPUTERS!) thus it has no warranty... too bad, cause 6 months later, turns out i have the same overheating/shut off problem as others have detailed. I discovered this last wk, early Feb '04. Since then, I've spent about 6hrs talking to HP support...with nothing to show for it. ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS!!! FINALLY, I called HP HQ in CA... and they were VERY unsympathetic! Needless to say, they say "tough sh*t" and won't drop a dime for it. I wouldn't be so pissed off if this weren't obviously a DEFECTIVE MODEL!!! (This was told to me by SeattleLaptop, who've repaired "over a dozen in the last 7 months". I'm currently collecting other similar experiences. If you have any, please share: lclaroche at hotmail dot com

RUN AWAY FAST.......2004-01-09

Don't waste your time! I purchased this computer a year and
a half ago. Since then I've had nothing but problems.
Continuous overheating and shutdowns, the cd/dvd rom stopped
working, the screen broke, the battery never works for more
than ten minutes even if it's fully charged. I have taken it
in to be serviced 4 times at best buy. Every time something
new is fixed but the same problems still remain. It is incredibly slow, and too much hassle, not a good buy at all.
1500 of my dollars down the drain. Don't let it happen to you.

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