The laptop Presario CQ57: characteristics, photos and reviews

Many fans of HP products can be confusing, standing in the name of the words laptop Compaq Presario CQ57 372SR. The reason is that back in 2002, the brand has merged with a successful electronics manufacturer Compaq Computer. This line is positioned by the company as devices designed to perform business tasks, while remaining versatile and budget models. One of the characteristic features of the Presario CQ57 is that the hardware is completely built on AMD platform.

Try to understand how good this model is and whether or not to stay on such a budget option, where for the sake of cost can appear very unpleasant nuances.

Design

The Laptop is Presario CQ57 (see photo below) looks a little bulky, but nevertheless in terms of visible calmness and simplicity. Monotone and low-key talking about a device designed for office work or serious students. Because of their size and weight (376х247х34 mm/2.5 kg) laptop is more convenient to use stationary, so as to carry (especially for ladies) it's too big and heavy.

Despite the small design tricks, like the rounded corners and streamlined shapes, the device is the embodiment of rigor and seriousness. The lack of any texture on the surface of the device only confirms this fact.

A Device made of black plastic in a matte style, but even despite the fact that the surface is not glossy, the gadget well collects fingerprints and dust, get rid of which will not be so simple.

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The Laptop is Presario CQ57 completely devoid of chrome parts in the interior, but this is not surprising, as budget variant is equipped with only the monotonic plastic with the usual unremarkable keyboard and frame around the display.

At the top of the frame is a special rubberized end caps, which prevent the contact of the display and keyboard. Loops are unremarkable and have a standard for line Presario CQ57 features, but, judging by user reviews, they are quite tight to hold the display to the desired angle. The maximum rospach cover – 130 degrees, which should be enough for work and study.

Build

Presario CQ57 assembled a surprisingly high quality. Any gaps during the inspection of the whole body was observed, squeaks and backlash is also not detected, and under palm area even with a rough pressing is not amenable to deformation. So strong was the bottom of the device, which is not true of the cover of the new model, which is equipped with a laptop HP Compaq Presario CQ57. User reviews have noted several times that when clicking on cover it was bent, distorting the display.

In the same way as all other parts of the gadget bottom is made of plastic. Unlike the lid, the lower part has a rough structure. The bottom is equipped with rubber feet that will keep the device on a smooth surface, and ventilation grilles. The lower part of the Presario CQ57 is divided into several sectors. In order to get to one of them, you have to first pull the battery with the slider. After unscrewing a few screws under the lid you can see the hard drive Bay, a place for memory and the wireless module "Wi-Fi".

To Parse the structure won't be difficult, so if you decide to do a small upgrade of the device, it will not take too much time, as it was with the previous lineup; from HP.

Display

The Model of the Presario CQ57 is equipped with a raster display from LG with the size of 15.6 inches with a rather attractive led light. Screen resolution standardized – 1366 by 768 pixels at a ratio of 16 to 9.

The surface of the display is made in the style of a glossy, not matte as in the previous lines, and it is not happy. Many user reviews are full of complaints of glare, reflections and the inability to work near a window or outdoors. The only thing noted as a plus – a matte frame around the display, which, though a little, but is protected from fingerprints.

The display has a tolerable picture – a measure of contrast and quite saturated. To some it may seem that the colors are juicy enough, but overall they are good and do not spoil the overall impression of the Presario CQ57 372SR. The laptop (review corners) has a very poor track record vertical and horizontal field of view, and if the latter is somehow possible to put up when you change the height of the picture completely loses its saturation and contrast, and the image goes out in his eyes. Watch a movie or photos with friends, in principle, possible if only they are in the same vertical plane with the user.

Sound

The Dynamics of the device located on the working surface – just above the main area of the keyboard. Their covers decorative perforated grille. The sound output is loud enough to hear all the melodic details, even next to a window that opens onto the roadway.

The sound Quality is quite tolerable, andthe sound is a predominance of high frequencies. The bass can be fully felt only in the headphones or third party speakers, otherwise the sound seems a little flat. Options maximum volume control is calibrated quite sensibly, and if you put the sound on full, will not be audible wheezing, distortion or some other catastrophe. For a budget model audio performance is acceptable, your current speaker system enough to work and study.

Input Devices

The look of the keyboard similar to the design of a similar model brand HP 630. Looking at the entire working area, we can say that the input devices occupy very little space. The keyboard is full-sized with a rough and flat buttons (85 pieces). Only the unhappy users in their reviews, so this is a preview of the navigation arrows, using them is not very convenient, especially for people with big fingers, the benefit function keys work with page designers carried in a single unit.

It is Also disappointing that with such an abundance of space, the numeric block to which are probably used by many owners of past rulers, but apparently it also affected the price of the device.

Touchpad

Approximately in the center of the working surface conveniently located touchpad (92х50). The dimensions of the manipulator are allowed to perform positioning and working with basic applications. The only thing that users complain about in their reviews is the lack of perceived boundaries of the touchpad, so those who used to work “blind”, have from time to time to look to the manipulator.

The Device supports almost all known multi-touch gestures like vertical and horizontal scrolling, swiping, zooming, rotation, etc. Also in the box of the pros, you can add the ability to disable the touchpad for its uselessness, so if you're using a mouse, accidentally pressed on the manipulator does not interfere with work.

Performance

For the speed of transactions meets the dual core processor from AMD E-300 trade name Zacate. Chip built on 40nm process technology and has a frequency of 1.3 GHz – not as fast as we would like, but with office tasks copes.

As a graphics accelerator uses an integrated video card "Radeon" HD 6310 1 GB DDR3 memory. The kernel now supports the graphics standard DirectX 11, but to play in something serious still will not work – device master toys 2008-2010 on medium and low settings.

Summing up

The Device has the features office “employee” for your daily needs. Interfaces to the periphery is sufficient, the display will show a good brightness for working with text, and the keyboard (if used to it) is relatively easy. That is, from a practical point of view the device no complaints: matte surface, simple design, good build and robust design.

This model can advise undemanding users who need a device for simple tasks like web surfing, watching videos, and print documents. Count on high performance is not necessary, and where did it come from for such a low price.