HP-Compaq has a Presario model of laptop - Presario V6613TU. It is a good model and it comes with the following - Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 1.5 GHz Processor, 1GB DDR II RAM, 160GB Hard Disk, 8X DVD Writer with Double Layer support, 5.4" WideScreen Display, 6-cell Li-ion Battery, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, Wi-Fi, Media Card Reader and many more. If you ever plan to install Windows XP on to this notebook, you can find links to its driver here.
You can either click these links or copy and paste them to a new browser to download the driver files.
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HP-Compaq has a Presario model laptop - Presario C710TU. It is equipped with a 1.7GHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, Super Multi 8X DVDRW with Double Layer, a 15.4" Widescreen Display and it comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic. Incase you want to install Windows XP, you need separate drivers for the same. Here we have given all the drivers for Presario C710TU for Windows XP.
To download these drivers, you can either click on the given links or copy and paste them into a new browser.
HP-Compaq have a Presario model of laptop - Presario V6604AU. It is an AMD based machine with Athlon X2 Processor TK-55 (1.8 GHz), 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB SATA Hard Disk, 8X SuperMulti Double Layer DVD Writer, 15.4" wide screen, NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7150M GS graphics and also has got Wi-Fi, Integrated Bluetooth. It comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic Edition.
The driver CD is not provided along with the laptop, which you will have to download from the internet. Here we have given the links to those drivers required for Presario V6604AU, for Windows XP.
HP-Compaq has another model of laptop - Presario V6425TU, that comes equipped with Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor T2080 (1.73 GHz), 512 MB DDR2, 120GB SATA HDD, DVDRW, 15.4" Widescreen and more.. It does not contain a preinstalled version of Windows Vista or XP, but has only FreeDos. Below, we have the links to the drivers for the same laptop for Windows XP operating system.
HP-Compaq has a Presario model laptop - Presario V3611AU. It comes with an AMD Turion Processor, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB SATA HDD, 8X SuperMulti DVD Writer, 14.1" Widescreen and more. They do not provide drivers for this laptop for any Operating Sysem other than Windows Vista, in their website. Here are the links for its drivers for Windows XP.
You can either click on the links or copy and paste them to a new window to download these drivers. We have provided alternate drivers also. Please try the alternate ones if the first one does not work for you.
HP-Compaq has got a Presario Model laptop with model No. Presario C707TU. It is equipped with Intel Pentium Dual Core processor (1.73 MHz), 512 MB DDR II RAM, 120 GB SATA HDD, DVD Super Multi Dual Layer Burner and other features.
The drivers for the same for use for Windows XP is not available in the company's website. You can use their Online Chat system to talk to their executive and get links to these drivers.
Below given are the links to various drivers of Presario C707TU Laptop for Windows XP.
HCL B 2302 is one of the very few sub 37500 rupees Core 2 Duo laptops available in India. It is a bargain for the price you are paying for it. This model replaces the HCL Z 2201 laptop and the only difference(in the major components - Processor, RAM, Harddisk, Screen) being the 15" screen for the B 2302 model. Ubuntu installations on most laptops are a breeze and would be ready to use without any major custom configurations. However this laptop required some specific tweaks to make the system ready to use. This instructions are for the HCL B 2302 laptop but it is very likely that they apply for the HCL Z 2201 model also.
Installation of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) almost works out of the box for Compaq C702TU Laptop. It is an 'almost' because there are a few glitches here and there. However it is possible to get the system up and running with very little manual configuration and additional driver installation.
Three areas where there are problems are
a) Wireless driver support
b) Graphics card support.
c) Acceleration and speed of touchpad
HP-Compaq has a laptop with model number - Presario V6608AU. Its an AMD Athlon machine with 1GB DDR II, 160 GB SATA Hard Disk, DVD RW etc. But they do not provide driver CD along with the laptop. Windows Vista drivers for the same are available for download from their website. Incase you require drivers for Windows XP, you can visit the website of HP and use their online chat system to talk to their representative and get links to most of the drivers. Here, we have provided links for the drivers for Windows XP for Presario V6608AU
It is surprising that HP cuts costs by not giving a driver CD with their entry level laptop models. However the end user can get online and chat with an HP representative through their online chat system to get ftp URLs (mostly) pointing to the right drivers. Here are the Windows XP drivers for Compaq Presario C702TU model laptop.
HP does not give a driver CD with their entry level laptop models. However the end user can get online and chat with an HP representative through their online chat system to get ftp URLs (mostly) pointing to the right drivers. Here are the Windows XP drivers for Compaq Presario V6307TU model laptop.