Compaq Compaq nc4200 Notebook PC

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Pros
Great keyboard; eraserhead and touchpad
External battery gauge
Cons
No optical drive
Only one built-in speaker

$775.00 - $795.00
From 2 Merchants

Performance: Good: 71
Features: Good: 78
Design: Good: 72

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	753
Adobe Photoshop	370
Adobe Premiere	538
Ahead Nero	1434
Battery Life (Office Applications)	5:12
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	449
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	513
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	3.2
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	6.83
Microsoft Office XP	583
Mozilla	421
Musicmatch Jukebox	569
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	445
Windows Media Encoder	451
WinZip	498
World Bench 5 Score	79
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	745

What You Should Know about the Compaq nc4200 Notebook PC

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.