The Compaq Presario V600 is to my own experience a good laptop with styling and design that is pleasing the eye. It is very well put together and very solid. With its 3 kg it is not the lightest laptop that you can find, but its not heavy either! Just a good weight and it can have a knock or two.

When opening the laptop you will see a smooth 15.4” widescreen. Before this laptop I didn’t use a widescreen before, but this is really looking smooth. The keyboard is just perfect, nothing to complain about.

A good thing of the Compaq is that its ports are sensibly located and clearly labeled. At the front of the laptop you find the microphone and headphone sockets, which is the perfect way to have them if you need to plug in a headset. You also have a switch for turning the wireless on and off. One negative thing is that bluetooth is absent, this is something I use quite often, bummer!

On the left hand side you’ll find starting from the front, a 5-in-1 card reader, which can handle the usual suspects - SD, MMC, MS, and xD. Next is a mini-Firewire port, two USB 2.0 ports, a modem socket and a Gigabit Ethernet socket. Along from this is an HP Expansion port, which provides access to HP docking bays. Moving along you’ll also find a VGA output and an S-Video output, which is good news for presenting and entertainment.