Acorn made the A7000 a very neat system. They did this by lowering the production costs of the machines by adding less components to the motherboard. 4 MB of memory is built into the motherboard, though the A7000 did include a singular 72-pin slot for standard RAM. Between the A7000 and the Risc PC 600, the styling was very comparable. The machine had a very strong but lightweight ABS casing in which the floppy and CD drive could be stacked upon each other via the smart case design. The connector of the machine came with the designation 'Genlock'. The Genlock was designed especially for, among other things, video editing and the combining of overlapping hardware. Acorn also decided to replace their strange computermouse (which had three buttons), which was being used since the inaugural Archimedes models and was very hard to find if it broke or became lost, with a more standard PS2 unit.

Like the Risc PC, the A7000 was usually delivered with a Multisync SVGA monitor, manufactured by Microvitec. The Multisync was able to display all the (sometimes peculiar) screen resolutions that the Acorn was capable of, something which not all PC monitors could achieve. The Multisync sometimes came with Acorn branding.

There was one major drawback to the system, the limited choice between the use of a backplace for expansion or the use of CD-ROM. This is due to the design of the case preventing the consumer from using both simultaneously.

When the British supermarket chain Tesco launched their successful charity event 'Computers For Schools', they included the A7000 proudly on their campaign posters. The A7000 was also used in the Netherlands as a teleprompter by the Nederlands Omroepproductie Bedrijf (NOB), in which the system was provided with software and labels from X-Ample Technology. These teleprompters were used during important events, such as the speeches at Christmas by the then-Dutch monarch, Queen Beatrix, in 2009 and 2010. These specific speeches are to be found in our museum.

Tragically, due to the increasing rise of PC clones in schools, the A7000 turned out to be the last fully new Acorn computer to be released. The planned Risc PC II (Phoebe) was never released.