Reviews for HP (Hewlett-Packard) Presario F700 15.4" Notebook - Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 1.9GHz1280 x 800 WXGA Display - 1 GB RAM - 120 GB HDD - DVD-Writer - nVIDIA GeForce 7000M - Windows Vista Home Premium - MPN: KC489UA 
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anttiwalt
- Apr 2, 2008
paid $400 at staples (w/o tax)Strengths: great deal, cheap and quite fast for the price Weakness: 1 gb ram (easily upgradable) on sale at staples, then used a $30 of $150 coupon bought on ebay. saved money there. then came w/ a free hp printer after rebate. so will pay $430 including printer. can't beat that. lappy is quite fast for only 1 gb ram, burns dvd's etc. 120 gb h.d. Looks pretty. great deal for anyone looking for a basic laptop. AMD processor works fine for everyday tasks, i'm running windows aero and gadgets and it is still plenty fast, even w/ 1 gb ram. hopefully it stays this good! go buy it! 80% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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shinings
- Mar 6, 2008
Compaq F750US NotebookStrengths: inexpensive, light weight, nice screen, good performance, dedicated video processor, integrated card reader Weakness: none for this price purchased this laptop quite inexpensive (under $600 budget), really nice built quality. You get good enough performance out the box, for web browsing, presentation and etc. It burns DVD and has DEDICATED VIDEO PROCESSOR. I'm not gaming much, but this is much better than those on-board video units. 75% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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autocad2001
- Apr 1, 2008
Compaq F750US NotebookStrengths: Great value for the money, lightweight for a 15" notebook hence very portable Weakness: not the best performance a perfect budget laptop for either personal use, like web-serfing, or business use, like presentation and etc. Its weight is quite good consider it has a 15.4" screen. The performance is not the best like Apple or IBM, but pretty decent for the price. The screen looks nice too. 75% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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TheBestDeal Inc.
- Mar 24, 2008
Compaq F750USStrengths: It is really portable and easy to carry. Has bright screen. Well built! Weakness: 1GB ram is kind of small. May need upgrade in the future It is great laptop considered the price tag. I used this for daily work and watching movie and burn CDs. I can do pretty much everything I'm doing on my desktop. Not for gamer though. 1GB RAM is small for Vista. You may need memory upgrade. 50% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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nc1967us
- May 4, 2008
COMPAQ F750USStrengths: Good price, fast processor Weakness: case is not good as pavilion The laptop is a budget laptop. The price is good compared with other core 2 duo laptops. It is enough for many applications except you are doing video and graphics editing work. The AMD processor in the laptop is fast, it give me higher vista score than Intel Dual core with same clock speed. I am very happy with it. 0% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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dad5258
- May 4, 2008
F750USStrengths: Fast dual core, dvd burner, wireless Weakness: memory is small The laptop comes with 1.9GHz AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processor. It is faster than my prevoius Pentium M processor. It suprised me that the vista gives this processor a much higher score than Intel 's dual core processor in my another laptop while someboday told me Intel dual core is faster. The memory definitely needs to be upgraded to 2GB or 3GB. If you are lucky, you can get a laptop with 1 stick 1GB, otherwise there are 2 sticks 512MB inside so you need to replace both of them. I am happy with the laptop. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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justhere
- May 26, 2008
Compaq F750USStrengths: Value for money Weakness: 1GB of RAM Bought this from Office Depot as they had it on clearance. This is not my primary laptop but as a secondary one, it has everything I need. Most likely will be used by my kids more than me so they don't need high end processor or graphics, etc. This will allow them to do their homework, check email, use the internet, watch DVD's, etc. Very happy with it so far. No problems getting it set up and getting on line through my router. 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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SC4SHURA
- May 21, 2008
Nicely affordable!Strengths: Affordable. Dual core. 15.4" LCD. Nvidia GeForce. Weakness: 1GB RAM. HP's bad customer service. This is very nice low-budget laptop. 15.4-inch WXGA high-definition LCD screen gives very sharp graphic, along with NVidia GeForce 7000M graphic card. Usually low-budget laptops are equipped with chip intel graphic card, but this laptop has NVidia GeForce. Though it is not a top-notch graphic card, but I'm much satisfied with results considering the price of the machine. Its CPU is AMD, but built with dual-core architecture and the Vista index is satisfactory. 1GB RAM is too small to run Vista Home Premium. As up to 287MB of the RAM is occupied by the graphic card, the actual available capacity is smaller. Memory upgrade is highly recommended, if you run several applications at the same time. 67% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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rusblue
- Jul 1, 2008
Awesome Laptop for the priceStrengths: Price is right, Excellent screen, weight - very reasonable Weakness: All sorts of trial software slows down the system The computer boots relatively fast. My first boot took less than a half hour and works well for the 1G memory installed. Windows software with Vista are trial software. Image quality is great, processor's temperature is fine. Uninstalled the HP tial software, Vista performance improved dramatically. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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HPadisappointment
- Jun 22, 2008
HP has a bad serviceStrengths: New, have not test yet Weakness: Bad service HP ask $20 for restore disk. Most other company will ask you burn your own restore CD but will send you a restore CD for free. HP will not send you free CD unless you pay $20. 0% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top 
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Value for Money
Strengths: Low Price, Light Weight for 15.4" Laptop, Bright Screen, Good Performance (w/2GB Ram)
Weakness: None (Considering the low cost of the Laptop)
This Laptop is perfect for Web Browsing and basic microsoft office tools. I would recommend upgrading the RAM to 2 GB as VISTA is also with 1 GB. It takes only removing 2 screws to change the ram and I did that in 10 mins. Since then it has been working extremely good. For under $450 @ Staples (after rebate) this is the best laptop you can get.
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