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After the release of the initial models in 1993, new models started to become available as the Presario brand grew over time. The 500, 700, and 900 series (including the 5500, 7100, 7200, 9200, 9500, and 9600 series) were introduced to compliment and succeed the original lineup, making up the first generation of Presario computers produced from 1993 to 1996, also known as "Series 1".
The first iPAQ Pocket PC was the H3600 series, released in 2000. [1] It ran Microsoft's Pocket PC 2000 operating system, and featured a 240 x 320 pixel 4096-color LCD, 32 MB of RAM, and 16 MB of ROM. [2] [3] Compaq released a similarly-designed H3100 series Pocket PC in January, 2001. [4]
Compaq iPAQ brand The iPAQ Desktop Personal Computer in its various incarnations was a legacy-free PC produced by the Compaq Computer Corporation around the year 2000. It was inspired by the iMac , and was primarily designed to be a portable desktop computer that could be used as a simple internet-capable computer.
Under Pfeiffer's tenure as chief executive, Compaq entered the retail computer market with the Compaq Presario as one of the first manufacturers in the mid-1990s to market a sub-$1000 PC. In order to maintain the prices it wanted, Compaq became the first first-tier computer manufacturer to utilize CPUs from AMD and Cyrix .
The Compaq Presario R3000 is a series of laptops designed and built by Hewlett-Packard Corporation under the Compaq Presario brand.
After the Compaq Deskpro 386 became the first 80386-based PC, PC wrote that owners of the new computer did not need to fear that future IBM products would be incompatible with the Compaq, because such changes would also affect millions of real IBM PCs: "In sticking it to the competition, IBM would be doing the same to its own people". [72]
Compaq was aware that by introducing its computer first, a future IBM product might be incompatible with and obsolete the Deskpro 386. The company predicted that IBM would not greatly change the PC architecture as doing so would also orphan millions of real IBM PCs. PC wrote "Compaq's conclusion: IBM's DOS standard is now bigger than IBM". [5]
The Compaq Deskpro is a line of business-oriented desktop computers manufactured by Compaq, then replaced by the Evo brand in 2001. [1] Models were produced containing microprocessors from the 8086 up to the x86-based Intel Pentium 4. [2] The Deskpro name, in an inverted fashion as "ProDesk", is still in use by HP, which Compaq merged with in 2002.