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Compaq Armada E500

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The Compaq Armada E500 is designed with simplicity in mind. It’s a basic unit that would suit those who want a mobile helper for their desktop PC, but don’t intend to use it as a desktop replacement. It’s similar to the VAIO PCGXE7 in that it doesn’t focus entirely on business operations.
This notebook could be your best choice for travelling, as its battery lasted the longest at full 700MHz power. The Speed-Step battery-saving feature drops the processing speed to half and, in testing, this translated into a further 30 minutes of work time. The full running time came in at four hours and 16 minutes. In terms of battery life and power management, the Armada E500 is an excellent choice. The SpeedStep feature allows you to breathe new life into your battery if you don’t mind sacrificing processor speed.
This notebook provides parallel, serial, audio and USB expansion ports. However, if you need more ports than these, a replicator port is offered as an optional extra for a further $320.10.
The ATI Rage Mobility-P graphics controller didn’t add much to the Armada E500, with poor results in both the Ziff-Davis Business Graphics WinMark 99 and the High-End Graphics WinMark 99 tests. It was blitzed by the top-scoring Inspiron 5000, and placed last in both categories.
However, the Armada E500 has considerably more memory than the Inspiron 5000. It could do with more than the standard 64 M. and is overshadowed by the Tecra 8100 and the VAIO PCGXE7, both of which offer 128M. It has 12G of hard drive space and a secondary cache of 256K.
Multimedia capabilities are a definite high point of the Armada E500, and the Compaq drive performed well in the Video2000 tests.
Overall, it placed third behind the Inspiron 5000 and the Armada M700. It’s also one of the cheapest notebooks we reviewed.
If you need to extend the life of your notebook when away from a power source, the timesaving features of the Compaq Armada E500 make it a sensible choice.

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