I brought one back from the dead (Pentium IV 1.8Ghz) nearly being thrown into the trash heap. Someone took it apart and jammed everything into the slots wrecking pins. After about an hour, I got it up and running.

I think offered my friend (Which got it with a bunch of other laptops) a trade for my services, to get the laptop. Was one of the best trades I have made.

The sucker was LOADED with the following setup:

15" DVI 1400x1050 LCD Screen (DVI-Based I believe..)

1.8Ghz Pentium 4 w/ 512K L2 Cache

1GB DDR-2700 RAM (2x 512MB, could be maxed at 2GB)

Radeon 7500 64MB *DEDICATED* VRAM on an AGP 8x Bus (The "Dedicated" part was what turned it into a decent gaming machine for world of warcraft despite the laptop being from 2002)

100GB EIDE HDD

DVD-RW

5 Hours battery life!!!! (normal charge, normal use). And have you SEEN the size of those batteries?!?!?

USB 2.0, no Serial, no PS2, no Parallel (which was great. No legacy!!! All brand new Applish type ports!

This thing was AMAZING. It blazed through windows faster than my iBook G4 could blaze through OS X 10.4!!!

Also, I sold it to a friend that now uses it for gaming under WoW. He has put 2 Wireless modules in it (802.11b Multiport with built-in antenna) and (802.11g, Mini-PCI w/ Special antennas under the keyboard)

He also uses it as a webbrowser, and it's faster than snot.

Great score man! these things really outshine Compaq's other products as this is the "Apple/IBM" of the Compaq lines. Total quality. Built like a brick and runs very decently because of the non-shared video ram