Compaq Computer Corporation has been one of the leading manufacturers of computers, laptops, assembled systems and other computer peripherals. Having been listed as a Fortune Global 100 company once upon a time, today Compaq has been taken over by Hewlett-Packard.

The Compaq iPAQ desktop series is designed keeping simplicity in mind and making it more user-friendly by reducing its technical complications, and also cutting down the overall cost of the system. This system provides ease of deployment, support and usability by eliminating ISA/PCI slots and reducing the size of the unit's footprint. The system focuses on USB ports with Windows 2000 or Window ME operating systems. The iPAQ desktop comes with an enhanced pre-installed tamper-proof security system. The processor for the iPAQ is either Celeron or Pentium III. It has a 256 K Advanced Transfer Cache for Pentium III models and a 128 K Integrated L2 Cache for Celeron models. The maximum memory for both Pentium as well as Celeron is 512 MB SDRAM, while the minimum is 128 MB SDRAM for the former and 64MB SDRAM for the latter. The inclusive interfaces include USB port, VGA, Parallel port, Serial port, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, RJ-45 LAN card, Microphone, Headphone, Line-in and Line-out. The system is embedded with an AC97 sound-card and Intel 3D Direct AGP Graphics card.

The iPAQ Desktop is an ideal choice for business computing. It is designed keeping in mind the corporate network environment where PCs are mainly used for mainstream office productivity applications and corporate Internet and Intranet access.