I have a Compaq Presario F 700 laptop that is around 4 years old. Lately the fully charged battery only lasts about 1 1/2 hours or so. Is the battery dying. I don't remember it only lasting that long when new. I am thinking of replacing it with a Toshiba Portege R835-p94 laptop. It runs at 2.5GHZ and has a 640GB HD with 4GB of ram. It also has a CD drive. The only thing I have heard bad about it is that the cover is flimsey and you can crack the LCD if you are not careful. Another comment is that the hinges are not very sturdy. It is around $ 599 with Windows 7. I think you get a coupon to upgrade it to Windows 8 for $ 15.