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 ...

HP has today unveiled three new series of consumer multimedia Pavilion laptops, the dv4, dv5 and dv7. In addition to some swanky touch-sensitive controls, the HP Pavilion dv4 is the first consumer ...

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, ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq Computer for $25 billion, a pairing that brings together two of the largest makers of personal computers. The move comes at a time of deep retrenchment in the computer ...