Advent 4213 Atom 1GB Reviews: Windows XP Home 10.2" Screen Laptop computer

+ Good connectivity and speed, clear screen, good range of features.

- Keyboard is very cramped - but always going to be the case for a netbook.

+ small and compact. looks neat, and works well.

- waste of time having trial of m/s office and being left with cut down version M/S Works, better off either supplying full office at reduced price or free office suite such as open office.

+ Built in sim modem

- keyboard could have been bigger. Tech guys backup doesnt work. Logo letters are falling off. "Plasticky"

+ Lightweight & portable but not so small as to be fiddly. Well specified with excellent connectivity options including onboard sim card which was the main reason for my purchase of this model. Bright screen even when using battery. Built in webcam & microphone. Mulicard reader.

- Have seen other reviews which complain about the keyboard layout and the flat-top keys and I have to agree although I wouldn't let that put anyone, other than a touch typist, off. Not really a bad point but of course as with all notebooks you'll need access to another computer to transfer programmes via memory stick or get an external optical drive.

+ small light with a big hard drive and a 3G modem built in

- none

+ Compact, good memory and it can be increased by using the 3 usb ports. Im using it for music and pictures, these are being stored on memory sticks. The advantage is that I'll take in on holiday and download all photo's and tilte them straight away while they are fresh in the mind. My music collection on cd is now mp3/4 and I can take most of my collection on one 8g memory stick, doesn't get much better.

- Haven't really found one yet.

+ No need for a dongle: sim card inserts straight into the notebook. Excellent battery life.

- No CD drive.

+ I wanted a small computer I could take on holiday with me to download photos, also to have some games on it, and be able to keep up to date.

- I havent found any yet

+ The laptop looks good and performance is excellent. It does what it says on the tin and I have no gripes with its software or technical spec.

- The keyboard is really not very good at all. I have a EEEPC 1000 and the keyboard on that is infinitely better with a similar overall performance from the machine.

+ size and weight

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+ Inbuilt 3G

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+ Compact, easy to set up and use

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+ Small, lightweight and a true portable solution. The built in 3G is the killer application, this item makes my life easier and reduces the amount of kit I have to carry around. With its dual core Atom processor its the same spec as my old DV2000 laptop. I have since sold my old laptop as this does all I need. At 1/3 of the price!

- The space button key is a little insensitive and the lid is a scratch and fingerprint issue, however I will probably cover the lid with a transfer.

+ Its small and relatively cheap.

- Very slow which can be really frustrating. some times the keboard can't keep up with typing. and sometimes when i use it for more than an hour or so the screen will go funny colours and the only way out of it is to shut the computer down.

+ size and weight - i travel a lot

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+ good display, good (though small) keyboard

- battery life

+ small and light

- track pad a bit slow

+ Built-in HSPA.

- Keyboard could be bigger - there's room left on the device for a bigger keyboard.

+ Lots of technology packed into a tiny space

- Keyboard is cramped

+ lightweight, very clear screen pixels, ease of use

- keypad too small, shiny black not a good idea - scratches very easily, slow upper/lower case buttons

+ easy to use, good value for money

- not found any yet

+ small, easy to use, long battery life

- nothing bad found yet but used mainly as a travelling companion to download and sort photos on a daily basis from a digital camera whilst on a touring holiday.

+ very compact,easy,easy to use,very pleased

- no bad points

+ Integrated SIM card is excellent

- Keyboard not great

+ A handy, easy to use notebook that youcan easily take anywhere and use.

- not found any yet

+ portability

- none

+ Good size hard drive,clear matt screen,nice size small and portable but not too small

- Keyboard a bit cramped,gloss cover looks nice but attracts fingerprints.

+ Compact, strong case, clear screen, quiet, large hard disk. Great to have the built-in Bluetooth and 3G slot. Good battery life for all sensible uses. This machine is a joy to own. Strongly recommended. The machine feels solid and well-built, far better than the MSI Wind clones, such as the 4489. Thankfully it is not overloaded by bloatware either. The Restore media creation was straightforward, but you need a 4GB pendrive.

- The keyboard has been criticised in reviews and it takes a bit of getting used to. But it is well-made and after a few days I can type on it perfectly well. This slight drawback is far outweighed by the positives.

+ Samll,compact all round good unit and much cheaper than some ogf the big name rivals. Good screen,wirless,3G as well as bluetooth. Put this all together wih a 160Gb hard disk and 1Gb of Ram then it is a very good machine.

- No DVD drive, and probably a little slow for anybody using the bigger programs.

+ Excellent value for money. Performance good

- No case supplied

+ good battery life, 3g modem, good screen

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+ Small and Light weight, yet powerful enough to do everything that I require. Built in SIM card makes using the Net on the move a breeze.

- Can't really think of any bad points

+ Great value, compact sized windows machine. Good sized haed drive and capable of running office software that my daughter needs for University.

- I find the keyboard a bit small although I have larger than average hand size.

+ Good battery life. Same as buying new save for below

- Very poor cosmetically. This item had been well used. Did not represent good value in compariuson to buiying new as opposed to refurb.

+ It's easy to use and set up, quick search engine, battery lasts well. Don't know about the bluetooth as haven't used it and don't use the mobile network only wanted it for home use.

- Keyboard quite awkward because of size of keys although you do get used to it, doesn't come with a manual you have to download it, can't use it wirelessly anywhere else in the house except where the router is or it doesn't find the network

+ Having the inbuilt sim card slot for the mobile broadband is ideal saves having to worry about the dongle. The size is ideal for carrying around with you.

- The battery life isnt as good as it could be. although it says 6 hours, when you are browsing the internet it only last 2 maybe 3 if your lucky.

+ small, light, 3g broadband, decent battery life, good condition for refurb

- spacebar not very responsive, no scroll on the touchpad

+ looks good, performs well

- the advent lable.
the a & v have fallen off.

+ first class,just what i wanted,t/y

- none

+ The 4213 Advent was a complete machine, l could not have asked for more because it basically has everything, more extras than an average Netbook. from webcam to microphone, bluetooth and the best of all is the embedded sim sloth. i recently traveled to Dublin with the Netbook and l was able to access the net with my roaming 3G sim card.

- It heats up very easily while in use

+ Size and Battery life

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+ good on the move; not bad battery life using hsdpa (3hours). its xp! big hard drive.full wirless with BTooth, wlan and hsdpa. does everything i want out of a small portable pc on the move-its good for me. and it keeps my hands warm on a cold evening while typing!

- keyboard; keyboard and keyboard-its too compact considering the useless space on the side, my acer aspire one of which this is its replacment, the keyboard is soo much better!!!!
bit of a finger magnet on the black shiny top but hey it gives a reason to wipe it; lcd screen could have better definition and contrast / colours.
it does get a little warmer than expected but is not too noisy.

+ great little netbook, does all I ask of it!

- haven't found any yet - just wouldn't buy it from pc world online again.

+ Battery life

- Small keyboard

+ Size, battery life, speed,display, portability - actually almost everything. Also, the built-in sim slot means no connecting a dongle - just switch on and connect!
I've seen some people say keyboard istoo small. No way - never found this to be a problem.

- I couldn't find the power switch - it's a little slidy thing on the front. You can't really see it from above. Of course, once you know it'sthere it's OK
No other bad points.

+ Good battery life

- Cramped keyboard

+ Great little netbook, does everything needed, using for business trips.

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+ It's so light and small it's very portable. Has lots of memory.

- no bad points I can think of.

+ clean lines -- easy to use, easy to carry

- shiny surface shows marks

+ very compact and easily set up

- having problems uploading photos

+ Easy to use

- Keeps crashing

+ Compact and stylish. Not the fastest but fast enough to browse the internet.

- Need a extenal DVD/CD and the graphics/processor struggle to show mini clips from news/educational sites on the internet

+ size, features, battery life,

- needed wifi ariel upgrade

+ Ecellent notebook with great performance

- Shiny gloss plastic finish will get scratched, not very durable. Keyboard not full size, adequate but full size would have made working on the move easier.

+ its all good, there is nothing reall wrong with it. works fast for its purpose, doesn't crash or have boot errors. All fine

- N/a

+ Great size for portability. Great features. Clear screen.

- Keyboard a bit tricky because of small size.

+ I had Asus - smaller and less user friendly and am pleased I made the change. This is fast, light, and convenient to use without having to take another keyboard on my many travels. As a single female retiree, I try to keep the weight of my luggage down, so the weight fits the bill too! It looks and behaves like new...... good memory too.

- Really, I carefully researched what I wanted, and so I have none. I got what I expected.

+ BUILD IN HSDPA MODEM, Nice and clean ( like new) very handy and light, very usable in traveling

- keyboard very poor, only 1Gb memory

+ Ease of use good screen clarity even for an oldie with failing sight

- none

+ small compact easy to use

- cant get a broadband sim card without having to buy a dongle could do with longer battery life

+ Looks the part, Nice and Compact, Batt life quite good, Does the job..

- Net pictures of Laptop don't show how small Keypad is in comparison to other laptops & note books of the same size, Very fiddley to use, Chip Set very very slow. no back-up OS of any sort, NO Books or paper work at all, Space bar only works when it wants to.

+ You can put a simcard directly into the laptop in the battery compartment and need no additional model to surf the internet. Very light very small.

- None

+ This was bought for my son as his first laptop - ideal size and weight with excellent HD memory of 160GB.

- Only minus is no integral dvd/cd drive although this can be bought separately.

+ small, powerful, ideal second computer

- keyboard small and fiddly

+ Good value compact machine that came with everything i need at the moment, including plenty of memory, which is ideal for my itunes.

- I am still trying to get the feel of the smaller keyboard, as it is much smaller than my desktop one I use during the day.

+ screen quality, graphics card good (compiz works well) -- All functions supported by the latest version of ubuntu. Suprisingly quick machine

- Keyboard a little small

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- the "A " from the Advent name on the lid has fallen, and the lid picks up finger prints easily, oether than those 2 little niggles all is good

+ 10.2" Screen, upto 2gb memory & 160Gb Hdd

- Wirless adapter is very poor quality and doesn't get very good signal, keyboard is to flat and some of the keys are to small i.e. the enter key and the ADVENT logo on the back could easily peal off.. It wasn't as good quality as the Acer Aspire One series of netbooks. So bad and dissappointed that I sent it back

+ excellent .

- none

+ A pleasant surprise as product is more robust than I expected and the performance is better than I was led to believe in the reviews.. An Excellent Netbook with an unbeatable price for the spec.

- None I can see..

+ LIKE IT AND IT WAS A REALLY COMPETITIVE PRICE...........
CANT COMMENT MNORE AS TO ME THE AFTER CARE IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE PURCHASE
SO WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT ON THAT SCORE................
HAVE FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO GET ON TO MY NTL SERVER BUT WENT STRAIGHT ON TO HOTMAIL.....
INTERESTED TO KNOW IF IT IS GOOD ABROAD BUT WONT FINDOUT FOR A FEW WEEKS..THEN I WOULD LIKE TO DO THE SURVEY

- NONE SO FAR

+ The whole Netbook is amazing! The sim port to connect using a sims 3G is a great extra that many others dont include, the general speeds of this tiny unit is fast and can run the internet at as expected high speeds. The screen is a great size and easy to see and read from. The whole unit is small but not too small to make it hard/difficult to use. It is and would be a hard life not to have this with me whenever and wherever i go!! BEST BUY EVER!

- The power on/off switch feels very cheap and flimsy on the front. The over glossy lid is so easy to scratch and look messy very quickly! Had issues in getting the recovery to load onto the usb flash drive, had to call tech guys and they sent me a disc! PROBLEM SOLVED!

+ small and compact

- poor wireless reception

+ Good for what i need: talking on skype, and checking my e-mails whilst away.

- Could have made better use of space where the keypad was concerned. Heats up quickly.

+ integrated 3g

- Battery life

+ The netbook itself is very good compact, the spec is very good.

- The whole idea about getting it was the built in internet feature, but i cannot get on it, bit of a bummer.Because it was a recon model the hand book doesnt come with it.

+ Neatly arranged and does all that I hoped for.

- The shiny exterior finish looks smart but soon gets finger-marked, and probably liable to get scratched.

+ excellent all round unit,would highly recommend for its excellent performance, and the added ability to use my phone sim to log in is so so handy,again ,an excellent all round performer.

- fingerprints on the front case cover

+ Light,easealy portable

- Should have bought one with full size key boardTravell

+ Great little machine offering excellent value for money. No problems at all so far. Bought to replace my old laptop and pleased with portablility for size and weight. Keyboard small but well laid out. Pleased with it to date

- No problems to date.

+ Light weight, full featured with good battery life (nearly 3 hrs). Excellent connectivity options with the provision of 3G modem, bluetooth and WiFi. Display quality good.

- Keyboard a little on the cramped side.

+ Compact and light. Includes a number of useful ideas with good communication features. Good screen. Excellent HDD capacity and good 1 GB memory. Good battery life - about 3 hours. PC World gave me a refund without any quibble when I took the first unit back as U/S.

- Seems a bit slow to get going! Sound system not very good with microphone difficult to hear when using Skype. Pity a small cloth bag could not be included (like ASUS) to save scratching the shiny lid surface. Had to return the first unit with problems.

+ Its working quite well

- Not observed, yet

+ Sim card from Huawei modem can be put inside this computer, no "dongle" outside needed
Nice keyboard, God quality display
CPU can be switched betwen 800/1600 MHz manually when system working
Easy to move - i can get it anywhere

- Definitly NOT 6 hours battery life....
Too slow CPU/GPU to watch HD video from YouTube, and getting slow at any time when website has video/animation
Getting HOT when working and NOISY (on 1600 MHz mode)
System Backup software can't write on SD card, and has problem with some USB-Pen drive

+ Bought this for my young son's birthday so we didn't have to worry about him causing issues on our main PC while he's learning. He's just 4, so we needed something quite robust and simple that wouldn't break the bank. His little hands manage perfectly on the keyboard and mouse button. Non-split mouse button hasn't proved a problem for him at all which surprised me a bit. Start-up seems pretty quick. Keeps wireless connection very well indeed. Construction seems solid enough. We now use it ourselves in the evenings to check ebay and such from the comfort of the sofa.

- If you've never tried using the web on a 10" screen before, you really should try it before you buy a product like this. It's small for portability, and rightly so, so you can't really complain, but there is a lot of scrolling involved, and some larger images and web games simply don't fit on the screen. (You can change the zoom level in your web browser away from 100%, but this is getting into 'fixes'). Battery life is far from the best on this device, so if that's paramount, this probably isn't for you. Keyboard is very average purely because it's cramped for full size hands. Some competitors seem to have done this a lot better, but they were all a lot more expensive at time of purchase.