HP recently introduced a line of Compaq Presario PCs, including the newly designed Compaq Presario S3000 series desktops and the Compaq Presario 2500 and 2100 series notebooks. The redesigned Compaq Presario S3000 series desktop PCs feature high-capacity hard drives and DVD or rewritable CD drives. The new notebooks are designed to provide higher data transfer speeds over longer distances than other wireless LAN technologies while providing backward compatibility to existing 802.11 standards.

Compaq Presario S3000 Series Desktop PCs
The Compaq Presario S3000 series - which
includes the S3000NX, S3100NX, S3200NX
and S3300NX - features a new design.

The Compaq Presario S3000NX is designed
to be an affordable PC that lets consumers
burn their own music CD collection or surf the
Web. At an estimated street price of $449
after a $50 mail-in rebate, the Compaq
Presario S3000NX features an AMD Athlon
XP 2000+ processor, 256-MB DDR memory,
a 40-GB hard drive, a 48x CD-RW drive, 32-MB integrated graphics and an open AGP slot. The S3000NX desktop PC is expected to be available in retail stores and on hpshopping.com beginning April 6.

The Compaq Presario S3100NX features an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor, 256-MB DDR memory, 32-MB integrated graphics, an 80-GB hard drive, open AGP slot, and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. At an estimated U.S. street price of $539 after a $50 mail-in rebate, the S3100NX desktop PC is available today in retail stores and on hpshopping.com.

For consumers demanding faster performance, the Compaq Presario S3200NX features an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor, 256-MB DDR memory, a 48x CD-RW drive, a 16x DVD-ROM drive, 32-MB integrated graphics and an open AGP slot. At an estimated U.S. street price of $619 after a $50 mail-in rebate, the S3200NX desktop PC is now available in retail stores and on hpshopping.com.

With a 128-MB NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 graphics card, the Compaq Presario S3300NX provides advanced graphics performance. The system features an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ processor, 512-MB DDR memory, 120-GB hard drive, a 48x CD-RW drive and a 16x DVD-ROM drive. At an estimated U.S. street price of $769 after a $50 mail-in rebate, the S3300NX desktop PC is expected to be available in retail stores and on hpshopping.com beginning April 6.

All Compaq Presario S3000 series PCs include the Norton Anti-Virus software solution with 60 days of free updates to virus definitions, Microsoft Windows XP Home with Microsoft Works, a Compaq keyboard, a PS/2 scroller mouse, front- and rear-access USB 2.0 ports, a 10/100 Base-T LAN interface and a 56k V.90 modem.

Additionally, the Compaq Presario S3000 line features Compaq Instant Support, an Internet-based problem-solving tool that may help consumers solve PC issues and obtain answers in real time.

New Compaq Presario Notebook PCs
Designed to work with new wireless networks
based on the draft 802.11g specification as
well as existing 802.11b wireless networks,
the Compaq Presario 2500 series notebook
PCs let customers take advantage of speeds
up to almost five times faster (54 Mbps) than
current 802.11b wireless networks.

The Compaq Presario 2500 notebook PC
features Pentium 4 processors up to 2.8 Ghz,
up to a 15-inch high-resolution TFT display,
ATI Mobility Radeon integrated graphics,
IEEE 1394 input and wireless connectivity.

The Compaq Presario 2100 series notebook PCs sport a sleek design in two-tone graphite and silver, and is 1.5-inches thick and weighs as light as 6.7 pounds. The notebook includes up to a 15-inch display, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics and a range of Intel Celeron and Mobile Pentium 4-m processors. The notebook also offers double data rate (DDR) system memory configurations up to 1 GB and a Type I/II/III PC card slot that ensures expandability. Selected models also include an IEEE-1394 high-speed digital video port. Estimated U.S. pricing starts at $1,094 after $100 mail-in rebate for the Compaq Presario 2500 series with 54g and at $819 after $100 mail-in rebate for the Compaq Presario 2100 series with 54g.

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