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Advantages: good looking, powerful, does the job
Disadvantages: hideous fan noise, poor build quality

...and go find a better laptop (such as a Dell or Sony). Please note that although I am always willing to accept that my laptop is experiencing "rare" and "isolated" issues, I now know that the fan noise is a common Compaq problem. I hope this review helps!! ... Read review

Advantages: Small, Powerful, easy to use
Disadvantages: For more proffesional use it would need upgrading.

The compaq Evo D500 p4 1.6ghz is a good pc in many ways 1)The graphics card has a 3d hardware accelerator so you can play basic 3d games. This isn't integrated so that means that you can take it out and put in a new one I did exactly that and that turned it into a gaming machine. 2) It has 256 mb of Ram in one slot and there are three so again lots of room for upgrading but unless you want' to do a high powered process like video editing 256 is plenty ...
...has a 20gb Hard drive this is good because it means that the pc can stay small as this isn't a very big hard drive and if you are thinking of buying it do not be put off by this as you can get an external hard drive these days for about £60. I gave this pc 4 stars because it is very practicle as it is small yet powerful and with 2 pci slots you could add things like usb 2.0 or firewire. Great overall computer and i would reccomend to anyone no ... Read review

Advantages: Sleek, very light (10 lbs) machine. Customer Service good. Snap to install
Disadvantages: Few pre-installed applications. Only one drive bay. Caters to businesses

...I ended up with a Compaq IPAQ desktop. Although I'm very happy with my decision, it is not for everyone. Here's why: Quick Summary - Sleek desktop with small footprint more distinctive than the Compaq Presario home computer line. - Geared towards businesses where ease of deployment and maintainability and control is more important. - No pre-loaded software beyond Compaq's version of NT/Win2K or Win98 with Compaq Intelligent Manageability - Intel ...
...available. - 1 year COMPAQ on-site service standard (additional years available). - Multibay components (hard drive, CD-ROM, Zip Drive, LS-Superdisk drive, etc) can be swapped between IPAQ desktops and certain COMPAQ Armada notebooks. But only one Multibay slot available. - NO internal expansion slots available. The computer I bought the desktop direct from Compaq because they were offering the IPAQ running Win2000/NT4.0 with 128 meg RAM, Intel III ... Read review

Advantages: Good Solid reliable computer
Disadvantages: Fiddly to upgrade the memory or hard drive.

...peole. Mostly, I have had Compaq computers donated to me for this project and I can honestly say that they are about 99% reliable. Of the over 300+ computers donated so far,270+ have been Deskpro EN series, and I have only had 3 callbacks for problems on the units.Normally a plug I hadn't pushed in properly. All the other have proved to be no problem at all. I myself use a Deskpro EN at home, and it has worked flawlessly for over 1.5 years, and ...
...my house, and is the master for Internet connection sharing. Faultless in operation, I would not hesitate to recommend this marque to anybody looking for a reliable unit. Any business looking for long term reliability, and a good strong workhorse should definately consider a Compaq Deskpro EN series computer. ... Read review

Advantages: based no good processor P4 1.7gHz
Disadvantages: small hard drive, weak graphics controller

Try to find a good PC with workable characteristics. I know it's hard to find the best variant in the wide range of complectations for PC. Well let me tell you that sometimes is better to get a complete PC from one of the best companies in the world. It's a little more expensive than to buy it by parts and get them together by yourself but you know for sure that it's made by specialists who made all the adjustments just for you. Evo D300 goes with ...
...is enough RAM for this processor to provide a good and fast work without any troubles. Hard drive could be larger but it's not to bad if you clean your drive regulary. And ofcourse there are a floppy drive and CD-rom which you may choose. Also you may choose the operational system you like Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2 / XP Professional. I prefer XP Professional as a well-structured and easy in use. Make your step in technology evolution! ... Read review