Compaq Presario

Compaq Presario

Developer	Compaq (1993–2002) Hewlett-Packard (2002–2013)
Type	Laptop desktop all-in-one monitor
Release date	September 1993; 30 years ago (1993-09)
Lifespan	1993–2013
Discontinued	2013; 11 years ago (2013)
Predecessor	HP OmniBook (business notebooks)
Successor	HP Pavilion

Presario is a discontinued line of consumer desktop computers and notebooks originally produced by Compaq.

Introduced in September 1993, the Presario family of computers went through a number of iterations over the years, which included several different design changes to the desktop and tower cases for each series of computers. In the mid-1990s, Compaq began manufacturing PC monitors under the Presario brand. A series of all-in-one units, containing both the PC and the monitor in the same case, were also released.

The Presario brand name would later be repurposed for a line of low-end home desktops and laptops made by Hewlett-Packard (HP) under the Compaq brand name after Compaq merged with HP in 2002, and was sold concurrently with HP’s other products such as the HP Pavilion. The Presario line of laptops also subsequently replaced the then-discontinued HP OmniBook line of business notebooks around that same year, with the branding being reintroduced 22 years later in 2024 as part of HP's rebranding of its consumer products.^[1]

The Presario line of computers then continued on for a few more years until the Compaq brand name was discontinued by HP in 2013.