Compaq Presario Holiday Lineup Provides Consumers Progressive Technology at Affordable Prices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2002 HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) has unwrapped an early holiday gift for consumers: a new line of feature-rich Compaq Presario Presario is a series of desktop computers and notebooks from Compaq. The Presario family of computers was launched for the consumer marketplace in September 1993. Although HP has since acquired Compaq, the Presario name was not discontinued due to its marketability. PCs priced just right for gift-giving this season. The new Compaq Presario PC lineup found in retail stores for the holidays is ideal for customers who want to do more with their PCs in less time, with less effort and with prices as low as $399.(1) "This holiday season, HP is taking advantage of its No. 1 position in the home PC space to offer consumers even more selection at some of the most attractive prices on the market," said Sam Szteinbaum, North America vice president of consumer products, HP Personal Systems Group. "The Compaq Presario PC lineup, an industry-leading brand, continues to feature the newest technologies available for the season." The holiday line features three new desktop models: the Compaq Presario 6300US, 6320US and 6330US desktop PCs. At an estimated U.S. street price of $399,(1) including a $50 mail-in rebate, the Compaq Presario 6300US offers consumers reliable productivity with an Intel(R) Celeron(R) 1.4 GHz processor, 128 MB SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. , a 40 GB hard drive and CD-ROM drive. Like all Compaq Presario desktop PCs, it comes broadband ready with a 10/100BaseT Fast Ethernet interface. The Compaq Presario 6320US offers consumers an ideal balance of performance and value, featuring an AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon XP 2000+ processor, 256 MB of DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory (double data rate) memory, a 60 GB hard drive, CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. drives for an estimated U.S. street price of $629.(1) HP provides customers powerful multimedia capabilities and outstanding computing power at an affordable price with the Compaq Presario 6330US. At an estimated U.S. street price of $749,(1) the PC includes an Intel Pentium(R) 4 2.0 GHz processor, 256 MB of DDR memory, a 60 GB hard drive, CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives. In addition to a 90-day free trial of the complete Norton Anti-Virus software solution for added security,(2) all Compaq Presario PCs feature Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home with Microsoft Works. The new Compaq Presario holiday retail lineup is expected to be available beginning Oct. 6 through traditional retail outlets and Compaq "Built for You" kiosks located in more than 10,000 popular retail stores. More information about Compaq Presario desktop PCs is available at hpshopping.com or by calling +1 888 999 4747 starting Oct. 1. About HP HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its merger transaction involving Compaq Computer Corp. on May 3, 2002. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com. (1) Includes $50 mail-in rebate. Actual prices may vary. (2) Paid subscription required after 90-day trial period expires. Intel, Celeron and Pentium are U.S. registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended April 30, 2002 and reports filed subsequent to HP's annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , as amended on January 30, 2002, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2001. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. |
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