Customer Reviews

Compaq Presario CQ61-310US 15.6-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 4.25 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)

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This is the second laptop I have purchased, both of which were Compaq.

I got this laptop to upload pictures, surf the internet, and for general use around the house. The monitor is great and the picture is crisp and bright. The speed of this laptop is just what I had hoped for. I love the keypad that this laptop has...a big plus for the price!

I got a great deal on this laptop. I wanted a good laptop without having a huge bottom line to spend. I would recommend this laptop...Great little laptop! I don't regret sticking with Compaq.

The options available on this laptop, including the battery life are very good. I am able to work on things for hours and not worry about the battery dying.

The overall feel of this laptop is also great...it is smooth and sleek and looks great just sitting on the counter.

Compaq Presario CQ61-310US 15.6-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 4.25 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)

I bought this computer to replace a 4 year old Toshiba laptop that cost twice as much.
This Compaq was easy to set-up and it's a pleasure to use.
The processor is a single core combined with 2 gigs of RAM and it handles
basic computing with little stress.
The screen has brightness to spare and you can tweak the sound quality.
This computer runs cool on AC or battery power.(much cooler than the Toshiba)
I am very pleased with this computer and windows7 too.

I purchased this notebook back in Jan. of 2010. I bought it just so I could do some online classes...It was great for that. I use it everyday and have never had an issue with it. I love the fact that it has a 10 key number pad. I use it for email pictures, social sites and browsing serveral sites. I also stream video and watch online tv shows and movies with out an issue.

If you are looking for an everyday laptop this is it...if you are a gamer this is not the one for you.

The only other thing I wish it had was a hdmi port or and sd card slot, these are the only two things that would need improving.

I have used this machine as my home PC for about 9 months. It does basic function OK, but when I came back from vacation to find it dead, I started to worry (OK, I had left it on while I was gone. I will shut it off in the future) Fortunately I had backed up my data, and after reloading all the applications and the system, it has worked fine since except: It will not work with my Buffalo modem. It sees the modem, but it won't believe the internet exists on the far side (my two Dells see it fine).

The support folks were great. One solved the problem, for about a day, and it went south again. When the second person (we are talking 1 1/2 hours each session here,) wanted to reload the system, which meant reformatting the hard disk, I went back to the Lynksys modem I had replaced with the Buffalo (for better coverage).

The built in speakers are unusually bad. I also auditioned some music management software on it (by saving CDs (cda files) and playing them back). Horrible. Totally unlistenable. So I would not buy this product if audio is important to you.

I've had this laptop for about 10 months. I use it about 10-16 hours a day. It's pretty fast and holds a lot of pictures, videos and music. I love everything about it except the battery. From day one the longest I've been able to use my laptop without plugging it in is 2 hours (and that's pushing it). About 4 months ago it started telling me I needed to buy a new battery. Now I have to keep it plugged up all the time otherwise it'll die after 30 minutes.
So it's a great product but they really need to do something about the battery.

The battery life is not up to 2hrs. Please don't buy it for the battery life. The manufacturer should retract this claim of more than 4hrs, it is close to fraud.

A good buy. A good basic laptop with a good screen. Pretty fast for the money and good applications included especially for e-mail. Not awfully robust. We are on our second one, a fall off the desk did in the hard drive in the first one and we found it to be the same price to purchase new as to replace the hard drive.

I bought this machine recently with a few goals in mind. Primarily I would use it at the house, but maybe every few months I fly somewhere and thought I could use it to play movies on the flight. The materials say 4.5 hour battery life. I brought it home, charged it overnight, then cleaned off all the useless programs, turned off anything I didn't need, like wireless, copied a movie I recorded off TV onto the harddrive, and turned the screen brightness way down. I barely got to 2 hours. I recharged it over night, and got the same result. I tried it one more time, and even with the sound off, I couldn't get past 2 hours. On the plus side, while plugged in the screen resolution is great, the touch pad has a very elegant touch ( much better than the HP dm3-1130us I ended up with) and while it is heavy, it isn't much heavier than the competition. I didn't test it much in the way of speed, though I thought most of the keys worked well and had a nice feel. If they didn't exaggerate the battery life so much, I would not have bought it. If it came with an 8 or 12 cell battery, I might have kept it. I instead went with a smaller screen and no optical drive, hope the battery on that one lasts longer.

I purchased 3 of these laptops, with the belief that they had a web cam. I was very disappointed to see they did not.

I bought this for use while traveling in my motorhome and for this purpose it is all I need and takes up little space which is limited in a motorhome. With cell phone, laptop, home on wheels, and being a senor it makes getting away from my small town not so scary for an old lady!