Compaq CQ45-127TX

Compaq has always been the value segment brand of HP’s product line. The new stylish Compaq Presario CQ45 series shares many similarity (in a good way) with the higher-end HP Pavillion dv4 series but with a smaller price tag. The Compaq CQ45-127TX is based upon Intel’s latest Montevina Centrino 2 platform.

Specifications
  Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor (2.26GHz/1066MHz FSB/3MB L2 Cache)
• 1GB DDR2-667 RAM
• 160GB (5400rpm) HDD
• Intel Wireless Link 5100 (802.11 a/b/g/n) + Bluetooth
• 14.1″ WXGA Brightview widescreen display
• nVidia GeForce 9200M GS 256MB DDR2
• 8x Multi-DVDRW with Lightscribe
• Fingerprint reader
• 6-cell Li-ion battery
• Freedos (Compaq CQ45-128TX comes preloaded with Windows Vista)
Specifications (test unit)
The basic out-of-the-box specifications is rather under powered to run Windows Vista smoothly despite having one of the latest Intel processor and platform (1GB of RAM will sufficate Vista). Thus, I added more juice (RAM) to it to be able to run Windows Vista smoothly.