Compaq Comp. Presario 720US ( 470029-661 )

by Compaq

Product Details

Product Manual [3.52mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 12.4 x 1.6 inches ; 11 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006407B
• Item model number: 470029-661
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,838 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 19, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Targeting the demanding home and home office computer user who can't quite afford the absolute latest and greatest in state-of-the-art portable computing, the Compaq Presario 722US notebook is a good tradeoff between price and performance.

At 10.6 by 12.4 by 1.64 inches and 6.39 pounds, the 722US is a bit larger than today's most recent examples of micro-miniaturization, yet substantially more compact than many other comparably priced units. Outfitted with a cost-effective 1 GHz AMD Duron processor (64 KB of Level 2 cache), 256 MB of SDRAM (expandable to 384 MB), and a Via ProSavage KN133 video card with 32 MB of video memory, it will efficiently run most common notebook applications and even some 3-D games. Hard-core gamers and anyone who plans to work extensively with complex 3-D graphics may wish to look beyond this model to the Presario 725US notebook or Presario 6024US desktop.

Sporting a sleek design and a futuristic two-tone, black-on-silver color scheme, the Presario 722US is as stylish as it is functional. To handle your valuable files and programs, Compaq has equipped the unit with a 20 GB hard drive and a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. A combination DVD/CD-RW drive allows you to back up large amounts of data, burn and play music CDs, and watch DVD movies. A 14.1-inch, active-matrix viewing screen capable of 1,024 x 768 resolution and a three-way JBL speaker system with enhanced bass response help bring all your multimedia applications to life.

The 722US keyboard is equipped with numerous one-touch multimedia, Internet, and e-mail buttons, and a scroll wheel and touch pad for convenient navigation. The unit features numerous ports and connections, including 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 an external mouse or keyboard, a VGA video out for external monitors, an S-video TV-out, and speaker and microphone ports. A 56K modem delivers low-speed Internet and e-mail connectivity. To help get you started, Compaq has preinstalled a number of useful software products, including Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows XP, Microsoft Works 6.0, and Microsoft Money 2001.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Slow and hot, May 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Compaq Comp. Presario 720US ( 470029-661 ) (Personal Computers)

Man I thought a 1GHz CPU would rock but this thing is slower than my desktop 800MHz. The bottom of the laptop gets really hot too!

I also found out that the memory is only SDRAM which runs at half the speed of my desktop DDR. There are laptops with DDR but this isn't one of them.

The graphics chip is a Pro Savage, which I found out is bottom of the line stuff. Apparently a ATI or Nvidia graphics chip is the only way to go.

I should have looked around more before I bought this but I thought Compaq was a safe bet.

Do yourself a favor and pass on this one - there are better notebooks for your money.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good deal for the price, June 2, 2002

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"jbarreh" (Hollister, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Compaq Comp. Presario 720US ( 470029-661 ) (Personal Computers)

I shopped and finally settled on this because I was not looking
for the top of the line notebook but one that can do the job
adequately for a reasonable price. I use this computer for
three main functions and it does all three well.
I use it for web_surfing at home and it does that well on
11 MPS wireless connection that is finally connected to a DSL line.
I use it for accessing work computers through VPN and it does
that well. I have not noticed any difference in speed between
this computer and my desktop which has 1.5 Celeron processor.
I use it for burning CDs.obviously it does that well too.
If you are not a power user and you are looking for functionality
and mobility and you do not want to spend a lot of money this is the computer for you.
It does get hot if you put it on your lap.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Runs very hot, poor battery life, May 27, 2002

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John Retter (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Compaq Comp. Presario 720US ( 470029-661 ) (Personal Computers)

This laptop runs very hot, I'm afraid the case
will melt. Speed is ok, comparable to an 800MHz
Pentium machine. Battery life is below 2 hours.