Laptop unit sales have been better than the dire predictions, but buyers are clearly choosing cheap notebooks. Lately HP has been making good use of its Compaq brand to meet this demand for budget ...

The company takes on those annoying wireless notebook modems by creating a slot that will let consumers snap on connections for Bluetooth or cellular communications. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

We know, we know. A lot of you don’t like projects that consist of gutting a vintage computer (or anything else, for that matter) and replacing its internals with modern electronics. But can you ...

The Compaq Presario line of laptops has been in production since the 1990s, and continues to be a strong seller in the consumer marketplace. As with any computer, a Presario's service life can be ...

According to these—allegedly “leaked”—photos, the black and aluminum 2.5-pound HP Compaq 2133 UMPC laptop looks like the Asus Eee PC’s cooler cousin. No price yet, but the Wi-Fi-enabled HP Compaq 2133 ...

The days of Compaq and Gateway laptops are long gone. But if you have fond memories of buying your first Compaq laptop down at Circuit City, there’s good news. The brand is back — but in a different ...

Tech expert Michelle Thatcher grew up surrounded by gadgets and sustained by Tex-Mex cuisine. Life in two major cities--first Chicago, then San Francisco--broadened her culinary horizons beyond meat ...

HP/Compaq's retail line of notebooks are to be avoided. While their business grade gear isnt bad, their retail lines have a nearly universal reputation for poor build quality and construction.

The hacker who posted an exploit last week that threatened a large swath of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s laptop lineup followed up Wednesday with new attack code that can “brick” nearly every HP laptop. In a ...

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things ...

A client has a Compaq Presario 1200 laptop, running windows 98. But the sound card and USB card aren't working. Of course the OEM cd is nowhere to be seen. And there's isn't a thing on the HPaq ...

If you've locked yourself out of your Compaq Presario by an unknown CMOS password, you can reset the password -- along with all other CMOS settings -- by removing the computer's backup battery for ...