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Compaq Presario 425 all-in-one (1993) In September 1993, Compaq introduced the Compaq Presario brand of IBM PC–compatible computers as the company's first foray into the retail computer market with the release of three models: the all-in-one 400 series, the horizontal desktop 600 series, and the tower-based 800 series.
Following HP's acquisition of Compaq in 2002, this series of notebooks was discontinued, replaced with the HP Pavilion, HP Compaq, and Compaq Presario notebooks. The OmniBook name would later be repurposed for a line of consumer-oriented notebooks in 2024, replacing the old Pavilion and Spectre series of notebooks. [6]
Compaq was overtaken by Dell as the top global PC maker in 1999. [8] Compaq regained the top spot in 2000 and was overtaken by Dell again in 2001. [9] Struggling to keep up in the price wars against Dell, as well as with a risky acquisition of DEC in 1998, [10] Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) for US$25 billion in 2002.
The name was borrowed from Compaq's earlier iPAQ Desktop Personal Computers. The iPAQ was developed by Compaq based on the SA-1110 "Assabet" and SA-1111 "Neponset" reference boards that were engineered by a StrongARM development group located at Digital Equipment Corporation's Hudson Massachusetts facility. At the time when these boards were in ...
HP Pavilion is a line of consumer-oriented personal computers originally produced by Hewlett-Packard and later by its successor, HP Inc. Introduced in 1995, HP has used the name for both desktops and laptops for home and home office use.
The Compaq Presario R3000 is a series of laptops designed and built by Hewlett-Packard Corporation under the Compaq Presario brand. An equivalent model to the R3000 was the HP Pavilion nx9100 series.
The 2002 merger also brought in other products that were made or offered by Compaq at the time, such as the NonStop line of servers (which were formerly owned by Tandem Computers, inc. and then brought out by Compaq in 1997), the Presario line of personal computers, and the iPAQ line of personal digital assistant (PDA) devices.