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 ...

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 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, ...

Over the years I have used HP & Compaq laptops and have realized that the only support out there is those provided by general hardware websites and HP/Compaq's 'great' offshore support. <BR><BR>Unlike ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...