HP Compaq Presario CQ60 review

Compaq Presario CQ60 — a late-2000s desk brick at floor pricing

The Compaq Presario CQ60 is a 15.6-inch consumer laptop from the late 2000s, built on an Intel Celeron 585 — a single-core CPU from another era of computing. At $135 it sits below the general-laptop median of $248. The profile is unambiguous: 3.7 kg against a 1.8 kg class median (+106%, desktop-replacement tier — the registered top weakness), graphics 0, performance 0. No top strength registers.

What a Celeron 585 means today

A single-core CPU from 2008 running at pre-modern clock and IPC: the performance index of 0 against a 43 class median is the honest number. The machine handles one patient application at a time — a document, a music player, a terminal window. Modern web browsing with current page weights will strain it visibly; the machine predates the web it is being asked to render.

The weight tells the design era

3.7 kg — double the class median — marks the CQ60 as a desktop replacement from the era when laptops first replaced tower PCs in homes. The chassis is bulky by construction, not by wear. Combined with the performance floor, the honest modern use case is a fixed-desk single-purpose terminal, powered on occasionally.

Price framing

No reliable depreciation data is available for this model (no original MSRP or release year on record), so no forward projection can be computed. The $135 asking price should be treated as terminal value — the machine has no resale trajectory left, only remaining service life, which the performance floor bounds narrowly.

Where it sits against peers

Pricier neighbors are the HP Pavilion G7 ($145) and Pavilion g7-2222sg ($147) — the same era's 17-inch formula; cheaper options are the Dell Inspiron 15-3552 ($127) and Pavilion G6-1070SO ($122), both materially newer and faster. The CQ60 is the oldest machine in its band — every neighbor outclasses it.

Bottom line

A budget-priced artifact: viable only as a single-purpose desk terminal or nostalgia piece. The single-core CPU, 3.7 kg chassis and zero performance axes make it the least capable working machine in this band. For similar money, every neighbor — even the $122 Pavilion — delivers a meaningfully newer platform.