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Compaq Armada 7800

Verdict

Pentium II and faster components have closed the gap between portable and desktop performance noticeably, but the Armada comes at a fearsome price, especially for a machine that isn't ergonomically perfect.

Review Date: 1 Apr 1998

Price when reviewed: (£4,934 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
4 stars out of 6

The 4Mb S3 ViRGE/MX AGP graphics and 5Gb IBM hard disk are both fast in their own right, which helped to bring the aggregate performance closer to that of an equivalently specified desktop almost as much as the Pentium II processor itself. These are early days as yet, but it does seem as though this kind of across-the-board speed-up of core components might bring notebook performance nearer to desktop levels than it has ever been before.

Author: Dominic Bucknall

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