In appearance, the new Compaq Presario CQ42 owns the exclusive embossed printing technology Compaq Textured Imprint with textures as youthful triangle blocks. With this completely new design case, the Series 200 guarantees elimination of fingerprint-free distractions like the previous generation. The 200 series has two main colors: Biscotti for active and Matte Black youth for the office world. In particular, Compaq Presario CQ42 has elaborate trimmed corners like the unibody Unibody design of the Macbook Pro series.
Touchpad supports multi-touch with multiple actions to zoom in and out of documents, easily rotating the image according to your preferences. The design of the keyboard is slightly lower than the surface of the hand, which eliminates the keystroke on the screen when folding the phone and is easy to type.
LED Backlight technology screen supports watching HD movies is also a highlight of this series, it saves 30% of power consumption compared to normal LCD screen. The new line is also equipped with Altec Lansing speaker system.