By a method of convection for cooling, these computers were commonly found in office environments due to their low noise (dB) output.

Due to the RAM limit of the Intel 815 series chipset, the BIOS in the iPAQ prevents the system from booting if there is more than 512 MB installed, instructing the user to decrease the amount of RAM in the system to no more than 512 MB.

For a short time, around the year 2000, Compaq released a few models of an iPAQ that functioned as internet appliances.

The Clipper appeared to be designed more for commercial environments and used a compact operating system based on BeOS called BeIA.

The Clipper also included a standard 10BASE-T Ethernet port, and shipped with the ability for the end-user to access the command line in order to tailor the device to use a company logo on the start-up screen.