Compaq Deskpro 2000 P MMX 166 MHz

Advantages: Sturdy, many features
Disadvantages: (nearly) outdated, powersaving options

...My Omnibook 3000 has the following quickspecs: Pentium 200 MMX, 512 k. 80 MB EDO RAM. 3,2 GB HDD. 13,3'' TFT. Ports: ECP, Parallel, D-SUB, IrDA, PS/2, USB, 32-BIT Cardbus. Audio (Crystal): line ind, microphone, speaker out. The PC has everything that you'll find in a PII-system - exept a PII processor. In other words it has been state-of-the-art, when the PC was launched. That means that today the only new thing you might want to have is a firewire-port, and who needs that, after all? The PC itself is as far as sturdiness is conserned probably the best HP ever made - The only thing I can compare it to is a IBM PC, which everyone knows is the highest quality. The 13,3'' screen makes 1024x768 resolution possible at 16 bit colors (NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD, 2 MB). It is quite bright, so you might want to install a non... Read review

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Advantages: Small and perfectly formed
Disadvantages: Limited upgrade path

...a small box format' could be another. COMPAQ have been known for many years to turn out exquisitely engineered computers, which punch well above their weight, the only downside in the past has been a somewhat fussy approach to third party upgrades. Luckily for all of us, whilst the build quality hasn't suffered, the willingness to accept other people's cards and drives has been well and truly put behind them. My in-laws had been struggling for a couple of years with one of my old 'toss-out' PCs - a 64MB 166MHz Pentium system, upgrading to broadband was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back (they'd also been running Windows/98 SE for most of that time, and the registry was more shot-through than your average territorial army's rifle target) Add to this an indiscriminate passion to install any old bit of freeware going... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent portability and battery life.
Disadvantages: Speed, flexability, conflicts, crashes, graphics, sound.

...We purchased our Compaq to use when abroad. It was excellent to start with. I installed the mojority of my software on it and I was still happy. The fact that there was no joystick port on the back was annoying but not assential. There was also no room for expansion. I was still happy with the purchase. I Realised after several months some minor problems with the operating system which I continued to fix. My system worked fine from then up till recently. The compaq system is not that great for the net. I made my webpage (www.dreamteams.co.uk) with it. It struggled with FrotPage 2000 and the other webdesign tools that I use but I did not mind (it still worked). I did not realise how slow it was until I got my old P166 out. The laptop was meant to be a 366Mhz but when put along side with my (slightly modified with fast graphics, etc) 166... Read review

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