Compaq Armada E500

I have always owned a PC and never really needed a laptop although I always wanted one because in away its a gadget and I am abit of a gadget man. But recently my PC has been playing up and because I need the PC daily for my website update I thought that I should really invest in a laptop just incase my PC fails completely. I admit that I really have not much idea about laptops. IBM, Toshiba, Compaq seemed to be the big players in laptops so I thought the only way I can pick one is to visit this website and check out Ebay to see what the prices are for certain machines. After alot of searching and weighing up the odds I found this machine on Ebay for ...  Read the complete review

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I had an upgrade in work to the Compaq Armada E500 and I was really looking forward to its arrival as the Compaq has quite a good name. The first thing that struck me was how slim the notebook is at only 1.6 inches thick. The only thing then is that you think its light but at 5.7 pounds you know you have it in your hands. With a 15 inch screen I thought it would be a strain on the eyes but no its quite adequate and the resolution is great given by a AGP 2X graphics with 8 Mb Sdram. When fully charged the battery life is three and a half hours, which is, more than long enough for meetings etc. Although the notebook has 128mb of ram I find it ...  Read the complete review

This machine is a new notebook brought out buy Compaq, first looks don't look too impressive, but for its price it is rather low for a brand name computer. The specifications for the compaq Armada E500 are pretty standard, with a 600MHz Pentium III speedstep processor, a usual 128Mb of memory and a 12Gb hard disk, plus a 4x DVD-ROM drive which actually a bit slow nowadays. The performance could be better in comparison with other Pentium III 650 based computers. The price for this computer is good but if you search a bit harder you could find something a lot better, maybe not a brand name but you could get faster. * 650MHz Intel Pentium III processor * ...  Read the complete review