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Compaq Presario M2000Z

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Pros
Offers great sound and battery life
Cons
Boxy and heavy

Performance: Good: 78
Features: Good: 79
Design: Good: 78

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	794
Adobe Photoshop	727
Adobe Premiere	624
Ahead Nero	1064
Battery Life (Office Applications)	4:48
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	442
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	789
Microsoft Office XP	589
Mozilla	506
Musicmatch Jukebox	591
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	416
Windows Media Encoder	500
WinZip	524
World Bench 5 Score	73
World Bench 5 Word Score	Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	897

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Good: 73 (Windows XP Home)
CPU	1.8-GHz AMD Turion 64 ML-34
Screen size	15.0 inches
System memory	1024MB of DDR333 SDRAM
Hard drive	80GB
Graphics	ATI Radeon Express 200M using main memory
Pointing device	Touchpad
Bays	None
Bundled removable-media drives	Fixed double-layer DVD±RW drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Three USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone, headphone, S-Video, docking station, PC Card slot
Communications	V.92 Modem, 10/100 ethernet, 802.11g
Business suite	Microsoft Works 8
Other features	Seven-in-one card media card reader
Overall design	Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Very Good: 4:48
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Average: 8.1/7.2
Vendor's reliability/service	Average/Average
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; free unlimited 24-hour daily toll-free support

What You Should Know about the Presario M2000Z

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.