Advantages: light & inexpensive Disadvantages: a mouse with a mind of its own
I've owned my Compaq Armada 7400 for nearly a year now. I bought it second hand off ebay because I needed a computer that was portable and light with a decent amount of grunt (and that wasn't too expensive) to take with me when traveling overseas. (They are currently selling for about £150 – 200 on ebay – obviously prices vary depending on the optional extras and the competition!)
The specs of my system are:
400 MHz Pentium II
128 ... ...modem
In addition to the above I purchased an Ethernet card for home networking as this did not come standard with the machine.
The computer I bought didn't come with a Floppy Drive either (although you can get them with floppy drive built in) and I have considered getting one since as I don't have a desk top computer to download the information on to when I am traveling and I sometimes want my data to be a little more portable – but that ...
ShoeLace 20.04.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Compaq Armada 7400
Advantages: Very fast and reliable with swappable floppy and DVD drive lots of memory and huge hard drive also a very fast processor Disadvantages: could do with more USB ports instead of using a port hub to connect all my devices to such as printer
I bought my laptop a few months ago and its a good powerfull machine on the move the battery lasts for about 1hr there is a little stick mouse which can be tricky if you have big fingers.
it's quite light and portable I use my laptop for studying the specs of my laptop are Intel pentium III 1.1GHZ 256MB RAM 20GB Hdd swapable floppy and DVD drive and 14.1" TFT screen the memory,HDD and processor was upgraded when I bought it refurbished in a computer ...
Laptop-DUDE 17.08.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Compaq Armada 7400
Advantages: Very reliable laptop Disadvantages: little stick mouse can be a pain
very reliable machine, PORTABLE AND ROBUST I BOUGHT MINE ABOUT 9 MONTHS AGO FROM A COMPUTER SHOP
my specs:-
256MB RAM 30GB HDD CD/DVD COMBO PENTIUM 3 1.1GHZ PROCESSOR
BATTERY LASTS FOR ABOUT 2.5HRS USING IT ON THE NET BUT IF YOUR WORD PROCESSING (like me AS IAM A STUDENT)
THE BATTERY WILL LAST ABOUT 3HRS MINE COST ME £245 + VAT WHICH CAME TO £295 IT CAME RECONDITIONED WITH WINDOWS ME IVE UPGRADED IT TO XP HOME THOUGH RUNS IT PERFECT HAVE A LOOK ...
compaqMAN 05.01.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Compaq Armada 7400
(+) positive aspects include the speed, apperance/design of the laptop, and the enhanced performance. (-) i have a matt black laptop and it shows dirty finger prints.