Compaq Armada provides the industry's best portable solution for the corporate environment by providing a complete line of corporate notebook products to meet every user need... more
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Advantages: cheap to buy used, robust Disadvantages: Heavy, slow, small hard drive
The compaq Armada 1530D laptops have been out about 5 or 6 years now, first entering the market back in 1998, so its worth considering this throughout my review; this laptop is nothing compared with todays machines.
I bought the laptop used about one year ago, I needed a simple machine for word processing at home, and decided it would be nice to socialise whil working (now I can sit in front of the telly with the family while I do my work) At £200 ... ...cheaper on ebay now, I've seen them go as little as £100.
But of course, your not going to get an amazing machine for under £200. These laptops really are basic and have minimum specs. The speed is just 16MB RAM, which is minute compared with the speeds of 512MB RAM in the latest laptops. The harddrive is less than 2GB in size, incredibly small considering that recent laptops have hard drives beyond 50GB!! Its also only a pentium one, which means ...
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17.04.2004
Ol' Reliable! Review ofCompaq Armada 1530 - P MMX 133 MHz - 12.1" CSTNby
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Advantages: Useful to have Disadvantages: Old age
Well my dad brought home a laptop from work once. It had a Pentium 1 133mhz processor, 256 color display, and was running windows 98. My mum owned it for a while and mainly used it for the internet and a training CD Rom, but I soon aquired it.
I installed Windows NT on it and it worked a treat! With a few modifications Windows NT is like Windows 98 but much faster! It wasnt the fastest on this laptop but it was better than windows 98.
I had managed ... ...play them in full screen. It was useful for putting on a coffee table and showing pictures which were accessed through the network.
It was good for internet browsing up to a certain poiint, and at one time could even handle MSN 5.0 with webcam!!
When the external monitor was plugged in, it could manage 16bit colour display, which I supppose was quite impressive.
It had MSN 5.0 installed on it, and this worked fine. It also had office 2000 which ...
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Compaq Armada provides the industry's best portable solution for the corporate environment by providing a complete line of corporate notebook products to meet every user need offering: stability and consistency, low total cost of ownership, superior manageability, and excellent reliability and support. Armada portables are designed and built with the highest quality and reliability standards. Vigorous testing along with reliability and durability features on certain products such as magnesium alloy casings for enhanced durability, shock mounted hard drives and built-in fault notification alerts on most or all models enable Armada users to be assured maximum productivity.
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slots Total (Free):
1 ( 1 ) x PC Card - type III (2 x type I / II)
1 ( 1 ) x memory - SO DIMM 144-PIN
Interfaces:
1 x audio - line-In - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
1 x audio - line-In - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
Miscellaneous
Compliant Standards: Plug and Play
Power
Power Device: External
Voltage Required: AC 115/220 V ± 18% ( 50/60 Hz )
Battery
Technology: Nickel Metal Hydride
Installed Qty: 1 / 2 (max)
Run Time (Up To): 3 hour(s)
Operating system / software
OS Provided: Microsoft Windows 95
Software: Easy Internet Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Drivers & Utilities, Compaq Insight Manager, Netscape Navigator, Just Connect
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 1 year warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - parts and labour - 1 year - carry-in
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 10 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 40 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 10 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 10 g @ 11ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 240 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.55 g @ 5-150 Hz (operating) / 1.5 g @ 5-150 Hz (non-operating)
My husband has been using the HP Laserjet P1005 at work for the past few months. His [much more expensive] laserjet broke down and he was quite put out to receive this in return!
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This product is very good for producing business type letters.
It is fast and reliable and rarely gets jammed.
It can use universal paper as well as the more expensive type papers and the memory capacity is very good.
Although it only prints in black... more
We have recently purchased 2 of these at my office, none of us are pros with computers or networks but we were able to set them up on our on and get them on the company network within 30 mins! (via USB) It comes with a cd-rom with installation software... more
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