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 ...

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At a news conference in Taipei, HP announced that it will begin offering 64GB SSD drives in its business lineup of Compaq laptops. The drive will, at first, be available in the HP Compaq 2710p, 2510p, ...

If there's one thing this dour economy is good for, it's pushing down prices. Walmart have just announced that they'll be offering a $298 notebook, the Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM, complete with a ...

The annual back-to-school shopping trip is just around the corner. Load the family in the mini-van, drive over to your local Walmart, and watch as your shopping cart fills with new clothes, shoes, ...

Compaq Computer has begun shipping versions of its Presario 1200 notebook with Advanced Micro Devices' 1.1GHz Athlon 4 and 900MHz Duron mobile processors. A Presario 1200 with the 1.1GHz chip, for ...

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 ...

New HP laptops it would seem, the $800 Compaq nx9020, a $1200 nx9020, and a nx9040 with a to-be-announced price. The entire line is aimed at small-business users that need something to perform basic ...

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 ...