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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. is recalling about 15,700 H-P and Compaq notebook computer batteries worldwide for a burn and fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday. H-P has ...

Houston teachers soon will be getting their own laptop computers from Compaq Computer Corp., a hometown vendor. The Houston school district will purchase some 15,000 Compaq laptops in an exclusive ...

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 ...

Compaq Computer and IBM are introducing laptop computers with built-in wireless access that allows users to connect to a corporate network. The rivals plan to introduce the machines today, following ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even with the old hard drive plugged back in I'm getting this error during POST.<P>I reset the BIOS settings back to default. There is no option to adjust the drive ...