Compaq Presario 2525US Laptop (2.40-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive)

by Compaq

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007M5VR
• Item model number: DB390A#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,260 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 21, 2003

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good value, but noisy, April 6, 2003

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sjdude "sjdude" (San Jose, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Compaq Presario 2525US Laptop (2.40-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

Overall, I've been pleased with this laptop. Downsides are that the cooling fan is very noisy, and it is HEAVY. The upsides are that the fan, while noisy, keeps the thing from burning your lap! Another upside is that it has everything in terms of PC interfaces. It is an all-in-one that is probably best used as a "portable" due to its weight, rather than as a laptop.

There's one feature that I **LOVE** and have been wanting on a laptop for a long time: The trackpad has a button above it that let's you turn the trackpad OFF!! This prevents errant mouse clicks while you're typing. Bravo Compaq for this feature!

Another good feature of the trackpad on this machine is that it has a dedicated scroll area which apparantly emulates a wheel mouse's wheel. This lets you scroll windows without having to find the PGUP/PGDOWN keys.

Mine has a stuck red pixel, like another reviewer's machine.

While the machine comes with Windows XP, I wiped the disk and I run SuSE Linux v8.1 on it instead. The ATI Radeon Mobility display chip is not supported by X out of the box (you can use the frame buffer driver instead, and its OK), but an X update exists from SuSE which apparantly supports the graphics chip with accelleration.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So Far So Good, March 14, 2003

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sam63 (NH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Compaq Presario 2525US Laptop (2.40-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

Did some research, finally took the plunge. First unit I took home had a red pixel stuck on in the lower right part of the screen. Exchanged it for another one and all is well. The fan is kind of noisy and seems to come on a lot but everything works okay. Unit has 3 USB ports instead of the 2 advertised. However, they are USB 1.1 not 2.0. The screen is outstanding when watching
DVD's.

5.0 out of 5 stars more that i expected for less money, December 7, 2003

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Francisco Villa (wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Compaq Presario 2525US Laptop (2.40-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

this compaq notebook is real fast and has many other functionality like wireless networking among others like 512 ram, 2.4 Ghz processor, 60GB harddisk and many other. this dude is very kind and help me with many doubts so i could made a good purchase