First post, by swaaye
I have been hand-me-downed a fabulous new toy.
Compaq Armada M700
Not a photo of mine, but I can't take a photo of it right now so this will have to do.
- Pentium 3 Coppermine @ 1000 MHz
- 440BX chipset
- 320MB CAS 2 PC100
- 60GB 5400 RPM Seagate Momentus (my addition)
- ATI Rage Mobility (Rage Pro) w/ 8MB
- ESS Maestro 2E - A3D support thru Sensaura!! works awesome. Has a DOS driver but it's iffy. It even has hardware MIDI in 9x.
- Intel Pro 100+ ethernet
- random extra DVD drive (replaced ancient CDROM)
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Setting up a dual boot of 98SE and XP. Hoping to get the wireless PC Card I have to work in 98 too.....
Would prefer something like a GeForce 2 Go or Mobility Radeon, but the Rage Pro certainly is good enough. Also wish it had a touchpad as I don't like the eraser tip things that much.
I've already played some JK Mysteries of the Sith on it. The Sensaura audio is excellent even through the notebook speakers. Unfortunately you have to use 9x for decent audio drivers. In XP, the sound chip is reduced to a dumb codec cuz ESS never bothered to make quality drivers apparently.
It's actually a curious machine. During my web searching, I found that this model spans back to Pentium II CPUs.