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Summary: Buy anything EXCEPT this lemon!
Review: Freezes, sudden reboots, lost data, overheating (you could fry an egg on the lefthand side of the keyboard, which probably explains a lot of other problems), modem failures, sudden touchpad malfunctions (or complete failure), and numerous other, unexpected, mysterious problems cropped up for me within a few months after buying this light, slick-looking, feature-packed -- but completely unreliable -- machine.As many other disillusioned customers know, the phrase "Compaq support" is an oxymoron; you're on your own when problems arise, with only the restore disk at your disposal (and you'll want to keep that disk handy!). Trust me, folks, and don't make the same mistake I did... and I'm not the only one frustrated beyond belief -- check the CNET.com reviews to read dozens of horror stories even worse than mine. Lesson: If it says Compaq, run in the other other direction!
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Summary: unreliable laptop
Review: I'm writing this review about 3 years after I bought this pathetic laptop. Just as the other reviewer stated, I also had the same multitude of problems with this laptop. I finally put it away for a while and bought another laptop (Fujitsu, which rocks). Nonetheless, I recently brought out my Compaq Presario 1700 again just to use it for some word processing, but again had horrible unexplainable problems such as it freezing, overheating, taking forever to start up or shut down, losing the active desktop, suddenly shutting down for no reason, battery life is miserable, etc. and finally, it didn't recognize any drive (including the hard drive) and was completely inoperable. I finally just threw the useless piece of junk away tonight. I've owned five desktops and four laptops (including three with the same OS) and none were as bad as this machine, not even close; this was the worst by far. Of course, you can hardly buy these 1700 laptops anymore except on eBay or in used computer stores. But my advice is steer away from the 1700 series. They look great and are stylish but have horrible performance problems. The photo shown here does not look quite right, the machine is actually more sleek with a nice two-tone charcoal gray/black and silver. Nonetheless do NOT buy this machine if you see it used.
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