Customer Reviews

Compaq Presario 2145US Laptop (2.00-GHz Athlon XP-M 2400+, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)

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I bought this laptop in 2002 I believe and was very happy with the features. I was able to do pretty much everything I wanted on it, including playing my favorite game at the time which was Command and Conquer Red Alert II. Like the above description says, it is not suitable for heavy duty gaming, but some of the less graphically challenging games run OK on it. Regular DVD movies run fine on here with no lag if you keep the junk off you hard drive. The JBL speakers and sound system sounds pretty good, but I usually hook up a little 2.1 powered speaker system to it for more realistic game and movie sounds as well as playing my MP3 collection.

This system is a good travel companion, and has served me well on many family outings, allowing me to play games and watch movies which I packed in the bag. The Wi-Fi came in handy a number of times as well, especially when my cell phone battery died!

I like the styling of this laptop and have found it to be a reliable computer. I am still hooking it up to the charger and using it to help my wife to learn some basic computing, as she is a Noob at it. Even though it is now almost 9 years old it still runs, although I have to run it off the supply since the battery doesn't hold a charge too well anymore.

If you can still find one in good working order it would still work fine as a student computer, or as a backup home computer. Also, once again it's still great on trips for watching your old DVD collection! Just don't expect too much out of the battery. Also I recommend adding at least another 512meg of ram.