As of July 2025, we believe the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air powered by the M4 chip is the best cheap MacBook for most people.

A reliable laptop can make a huge difference to your life. However, finding one that is simultaneously speedy, powerful, and ...

HP's new PCFax protocol brings Carfax-style transparency to used laptops, logging repairs and usage to boost buyer trust and ...

If you see the HP BIOS error 500 or 501 on starting your system and you cannot boot into Windows, the solutions explained here will help you.

As the internet boom hit in the mid-to-late-1990s, HP sales surged, even edging out IBM in the top PC brands for market share by 1999, and by 2000, came in third behind Dell and Compaq.

The new name… is actually an old name. HP used the OmniBook name for laptops released between 1993 and 2002, but discontinued the brand after acquiring Compaq in 2002.

So HP decided to pull Compaq into its own computer line as a low-end "budget" brand. Of course, this was akin to a snake eating its tail as the Compaq line suffered quality issues caused by the ...

The affected batteries were shipped with specific HP, Compaq, HP ProBook, HP ENVY, Compaq Presario, and HP Pavilion Notebook Computers sold worldwide from March 2013 through October 2016, and/or ...

• HP is acquiring Compaq Computer in a stock swap valued around $25 billion, one of the largest deals in technology history. Compaq shareholders will receive 0.6325 shares of newly issued HP ...

The most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the equivalent of more than $600,000 in today’s dollars, but not all personal computers released in the early 1970s cost as much.