Sheathed in a hypnotic, swirled-gray front casing, the Compaq Presario 5000 looks flashier than it is. In reality, it's a fairly pedestrian computer with few interesting extras. Compaq bills it as an ...

NEW YORK--Summer vacation has just begun, but one computer maker is already getting ready for back-to-school shoppers. Compaq Computer on Wednesday announced three new models of Presario desktops, ...

PC shoppers are often advised, “Buy one step down from the top” — hitting the price/performance sweet spot with Intel or AMD’s second fastest CPU, or the second biggest hard disk available. But even ...

I have a pentium 166mhz compaq presario 4712 sitting in my basement collecting dust. I would like to install mandrake linux on a spare maxtor 20gig drive in it, but I've run into some problems. In ...

Hewlett-Packard this week released a septet of new Compaq Presario notebooks for consumers. The updates to HP's Compaq Presario 900, 1500 and 2800 product families are intended to tempt holiday buyers ...

Coming off the holiday weekend, Hewlett-Packard is already in a back-to-school frame of mind. On Monday, the PC giant unveiled a new desktop bundle designed to present buyers with a basic PC for a low ...

Greetings ARSians,<BR><BR>I hope there are some Compaq Techs on tonight!<BR><BR>I am working on a Compaq Presario 5441. The hard drive failed & the owner purchased a 61 GB 7200 RPM Maxtor drive as a ...

"We give you choices" is Compaq Computer's motto, but in the past two weeks people have been more interested in answers. Why was CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, who transformed the company into the largest PC ...

The two companies, whose shares are hovering near 52-week lows, plan to hold a press conference to discuss specifics of the transaction at 9 a.m. on Tuesday in New York. For solution providers, the ...