Advent 4211 Reviews: Windows XP Home 10" Screen Laptop computer

+ Good build quality, light, portable.

- Pitiful battery life.

+ Light to carry, clear screen, reasonable keyboard.

- Trackpad too small and difficult to click.

+ love it! never off it! love everything about it! can even log onto my mobile phones internet using the in-built bluetooth when i have no other connection!

- havent found any so far!

+ Very light and compact. Screen easy to see.

- Battery life limited to about 2 hours max.

+ Does what it says on the tin!!
Performance as good as many full size laptops and desktops.
Nice positive feel to keyboard buttons.
Good quality screen

- Battery life - max 1.5hrs

+ Fabulous basic netbook pre-loaded with XP. Really lightweight to take on the road. So far we've encountered no problems at all.

- Like most netbooks and laptops the battery life is not very long

+ Excellent, portable computer. My desk top rarely gets switched on now as this netbook can handle most things that I want to do. It's not just for web browsing but is very capable at running software such as MS Office. The keyboard is a good size and the screen is non-reflective so not a problem to use outside.

- Battery life is only around 1.5 hours but as I mostly use it plugged into the mains, that's not really such a problem for me.

+ Good keyboard and non-reflective screen.

- Haven't been successful in enabling and using the wi-fi for internet The fact it doesn't come with a printed manual is a big shortfall. Am now trying to get someone with greater knowledge to sort things out

+ perfect size, good screen and keyboard. Good value.

- Only bad point is the battery life. No where near as long as suggested if you are using wifi.

+ Nice and light- very portable, make a laptop feel like a big old chunk, Windows XP works fine no problem.
No faults

- Battery only abut 1 1/2 hours which is a bit disappointing would have likked at least a couple of hours

+ Great little netbook. Bluetooth is a great inclusion. Extra ram helps it run sweet.

- Battery life isnt great - apart from that I'm well chuffed!

+ Can upgrade the Ram to 2gb, due to the expantion slot.

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+ Great netbook, good keyboard and well specced.

- Battery, standard for the type but not good.

+ Light, good design, keys better than most small netbooks, virtually every facility on a laptop (see below about no CD Rom

- Didn't realise no CD drive so loading software can be a problem (but would rather have the lighter weight) - you just need to be aware that you will have to download or transfer to a memory stick, which can be fiddly

+ everything love it best buy ever

- none except maybe a longer battery life would just make this perfect.

+ Easy to use

- Screen Size

+ excellent value and good features for the price, easy to use ,good to type on,

- wireless, webcam and bluetooth are disabled by default . just have to use the fn key to enable

+ size, speed, weight.

- None so far.

+ Very small and light. Good performance.

- Battery life gives only around 1.5hrs of web browsing.

+ Light, powerful, easy to use

- Not shipped with windows XP cd, battery life could be a little better

+ Light, easy to use windows XP, has a webcam and is wireless

- battery life could be longer

+ Inexpensive, good keyboard, low weight, good performance

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+ good all round deal nice 10 inch lcd,good hard disk size nice keyboard 1gb of ram more than enough for web surfing with windows xp.an excellent netbook only beaten by the samsung nc10.

- battery life of about 2 hours,a 6 cell battery would be a help.

+ Size and weight. Performance for the price. Capability to run standard operating systems and applications.

- Reliability

+ What a notebook should be - highly portable without carrying a bag full of bits.
A full spec PC, and plays downloaded BBC programmes from iplayer brilliantly- I intend to use it to pas the time on the ryanair plane to Spain.
Easy to add 1 MB of Ram to bring it up to 2MB

- None!

+ Love the screen size, design, weight and performance for its size. I dont know of other Atom processor based Netbooks that play back video without stuttering. Although I bought mine as "Recon" it looks and feels new. I did a lot of research before purchasing as this was the best deal I could find.

- Standard battery although small, isnt realy suitable for my purposes so I have replaced it with a 6 cell one which means I can watch video continously for about 3 hrs.

+ size
speed
ease of use
easy to store

- speakers
battery life between charges

+ easy to use. light weight.

- up to now none found only been used for one month but not every day

+ Just great to use and a light and compact travel companion.

- Nil

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- battery only about 1 hr

+ Compact and east to use

- Battery life

+ Great for using on the sofa - not too big but big enough. That's why I bought it.

- Battery life is poor - means its plugged in a lot of the time. Don't buy if you want to use outside the home.

+ Great size and weight! Well built

- Poor battery life!

+ Does exactly what it says on the box.

- Battery life is limited

+ Small light and convenient to use

- You always need more battery power!

+ speed from switching-on to being able to start using computer fast internet access good mouse delivery

- control button in wrong place pc slightly too-small not all the image from the internet page can appear on the screen

+ Small. Battery saving functions.

- Had to send back twice due to faulty left touch pad button sticking, battery not holding charge (believe the tech guys) sent back with wrong adaptor. - But that is the risk with a recon unit.

+ Good performance for size and weight

- Poor documentation

+ Absolutely brilliant little machine! Compact, light-weight and responsive.

- No disc drive, and battery life could be better, but it's no worse than other lap-tops.

+ nice small portable device.

- 1.5 hr battery life. needed 1gb of memory upgrade. usb ports slightly too close so can only have 1 usb pen plugged in at a time

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- My only criticism would be the battery life, get approx 2 hours but if it had a 6 cell battery it would be far better.

+ Once working it is a good lightweight laptop at a reasonable price. Performance is pretty decent, especially in Linux.

- Mediocre battery life. Spacebar often doesn't register unless you hit it right in the middle. Small screen height can be a little annoying.

+ Full size keyboard, screen clarity

- Battery life very poor

+ All!

- none! I love it!

+ compact, easy to use

- battery life

+ The netbook is easy to use, compact and portable without compromising performance and applications. The built in webcam and microphne are clear and good quality.

- none

+ Absolutely superb laptop.

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+ Small, quick, excellent value for money, good sized hard drive

- keyboard marks screen when closed. Would love DVD rom drive to be supplied with the machine

+ Small, light and easy to use. Good value for money.

- Watching videos online sometimes a bit slow, battery life could be a bit better.

+ Portable, good sized HDD,

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+ Good keyboard excellent performance.

- Battery life is only about 2 hours.

+ Great little product.Very light,portable and pretty

- The battery life isn't great,neither are the speakers.

+ It's size and weight are perfect for carrying about, and it has an excellent screen resolution.

- I haven't found any yet.

+ Compact, has wireless built in - windows XP too... it's a great product and I think people forget that with wireless you can link it up to share the dvd drive of a main computer. The lack of dvd drive means nothing. I really like it.

- I dont think the wireless is all that strong, keeps cutting out if you move it around.

+ Good size hard drive and screen. Blue tooth-needs to be turned on, as does wireless. Nice feel to keyboard. Handles skype and msn,etc no problem with built in camera, again needs turning on via key commands on keyboard.

- Battery life - lasts about an hour, will be getting a bigger 9cell battery off ebay and speakers sound very tinny - adjusting equaliser helps a little. Keyboard button position takes some getting used to.

+ Size is great making it very portable. I have just taken it on a 10 day motorcycle tour of Spain and Portugal and with so many free WiFi spots everywhere, I was able to keep in touch with family and update my blog daily. Skype download gave us free video calls from the hotels saving us pounds on telephone calls.
Screen is clear and bright and all functions are easy to use, I would urge anyone looking for a netbook to consider this.

- The battery when using WiFi will only last for about an hour.

+ lightweight with loads of features

- difficult to upgrade memory. As it was a refurb unit no manuals or disks.

+ Compact, has many good features such as bluetooth, built in web cam, wireless built in.

- Screen is a bit flimsey and does not have a secure shutting feature

+ Compact and easy to use.

- Battery life too short but understandable.

+ Astonishing performance with Windows XP as supplied. Even better when 2GB RAM added for about 13 quid. WiFi reception, usually dreadful in my house is excellent with this machine. I bought a larger battery which now gives me about 4 hours without charging, which is just fine. Delighted that there isn't the usual load of unwanted trial software. Just XP and the recovery partition. Add OpenOffice.org and Firefox (all free and superb) and you may not need anything else. Fabulous!

- Battery life a bit weedy with the standard battery, but not too bad really, and you can solve that problem, if it is a problem to you.

+ it probably would have been a good laptop if it had the software actually loaded onto it when i recieved it

- the windows software was not loaded onto the laptop, hence i couldnt use it so cannot coment fully on the value for money of the laptop

+ Quick, light.

- Poor battery life

+ A good robust machine. Light wieght and easy to use on the move

- Battery life is awfull

+ Very light weight and compact for travelling. Almost full size keyboard and decent size screen. Excellent specification and good performance. After installing Microsoft Office, ideal for creating documents.

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+ None

- Windows wasn't installed properly so it wouldn't even switch on

+ Size, Weight, portability.

- No Backup discs supplied, battery life could be better.

+ Slimline compact machine, nicely spaced keyboard for a netbook, good quality screen, built in webcam and microphone, good perfomance from Intel Atom Processor

- Battery life is only approx 2 and a half hours, although upgrade battery is available. Could do with a neoprene wallet to protect it.

+ every thing about the product is good

- no bad points

+ Great size, I use it mainly for emails and internet browsing. Perfect for travelling.

- no CD/DVD drive but I knew this before I bought it so no big deal

+ Size and speed. It is a very good machine.

- The way that the hard drive is set up - I'm unable to partition due to the drive letters.

+ I think this netbook is great value. It is fast, lightweight, which was a big buying criteria for me along with the portability. Good performance and I like the 3 USB ports. All in all, great value for money.

- Longer battery life would be good. Only 1.5 hours, depending on tasks performed.

+ Small and light with a bright screen ,Ideal to have in a motorhome

- Battery life very short

+ All Good apart for...................

- The battery life. only about 1hour on full charge.
Yes it tells you you have 1.5 hours, then 5 mins later 1 hour and so on.

+ Does exactly what it says on the box. Excellent keyboard and touch pad - even for my fat fingers and single finger typing! Clear Screen. Not too heavy.

- Poor battery life. I would like to have had an option for a more powerful battery that would give me 6hrs +. The unit is compact and easy to carry but the bag I bought is not big enough for the charger and leads - hence the need for a better batttery.

+ Light, well designed, quick enough bearing in mind the processor etc. Very good for basic tasks. Just dont expect it to be a rocket ship.

- Very poor battery life - around 2 hours only. Apart from that, nothing else as yet.

+ Good sized keypad

- poor access to to help especially turning on wireless switch.

+ Lightweight and well made. Has a good sized keyboard and a clear screen. Essentially it is a rebadged MSI Wind U100. Plenty of hard disk space. An excellent, good value netbook apart from the battery issue.

- Battery life is poor at about 2 hours and you will need a higher capacity battery if you want to travel with this. When you open this netbook, it is a bit unstable.but this isn't a major issue.

+ For the price its fairly fast, light, small and looks very nice

- Battery life for me is around an hour and a half from a full charge (I have the 3 cell battery) however the mains lead is not particularly bulky or heavy so carrying that with me is no hassle

+ Best of the XP netbooks

- This refurb was in shocking condition with worn keyboard and warped top. It obviously had not been refurbished and should never have been sent out. Refund at shop was prompt and apologetic.

+ I Do not have a pc from Pc world, Nor would i shop with them again

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+ I bought a reconditioned model, and unfortunately the first one had a fault on the screen but it was exchanged with no problem at all. I'm really pleased with my purchase, bought for word processing but I have found the internet access much better than I expected. Sturdy design, good keyboard and lovely clear screen. I'd definitely recommend it, and in fact my colleagues who have seen it want one too!

- Battery life.

+ The Advent with wifi and webcam plus MS XP combines perfectly with the 1GB RAM to give more than satisfactory results, in terms of speed, readiness, easines with which you can perform the same basic options you do with its cousin the huge 17" laptops, but at the same time it allows to watch shows from TV channels, broadcast your collection of MP3 wirelessly when connected to a hi-fi system, even update a website. In some points it's even better designed than the bigger size ones. The bundled Microsoft Works gives independence from Office, and running Adobe Reader, Spotify, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, is a breeze. The weight and operation are another plus, and the size of the keys even allows quickly typing pretty much as in a normal size laptop,

- I can't see anything wrong with either design or performance, the only thing would be (although I don't know if it's techically possible) to increase the screen definition from 1024 x 600 to 1024 to 768 required by, for example, Yahoo Mail to run their mail application, and maybe some other application.

+ small, lightwieght and easy to use

- battery life

+ Size, weight, adequately powerful, nice bright screen and a very usable keyboard

- Battery life isn't fantastic, but after market extended batteries are available.

+ A great little Netbook At The Price Not to Heavy i think a Fantastic buy

- Cant find One

+ Excellent value for money - no problems with this product and great to have guarantee.

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+ Light weight, perfect for my mum, who is disabled and can't pick up a conventional laptop. It does everything she needs it for.

- no bad points, that we can see.

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- bought a recon. so got no manual which made operating difficult with guess work.

+ Handy sized netbook, useful for travelling etc

- Would have been useful to have had optio for external CD drive

+ NICE DESIGN, LIGHT WEIGHT AND GENERALLY GOOD PERFORMANCE

- BATTERY LIFE IS ALOT LESS THAN STATED

+ size, speed

- left mouse button did not work
F11 key not consistent

+ 1] SIZE 2] CAPABILITY 3]VALUE FOR MONEY

- IT CAN'T BE HELPED BUT THE LIGHT INDICATING THE CAPS ARE STILL"ON" IS IN AREAL AWKWARD PLACE-COVERED BY THE RIGHT HAND. BUT PERHAPS I'M ONLY NITPICKING.

+ Its got almost everything that i need, wireless internet, bluetooth, camera, mic and XP operating system.
I like how everything can be turned on and off by shortcuts on the keyboard quickly. Also the laptop isnt just a square boring thing, it has got a bit of roundness to it. The hardrive and ram are plenty big enough.

- laptop is still a bit too plain i think. Battery could do with lasting longer. I would have liked to have seen an intergrated sim card slot for those that have mobile broadband. The only other thing i can think of is it would have been an absolutely perfect laptop if the ram was upgraded to 2gb.

+ tiny. When im packing a back pack leaving room for the laptop is no longer a concern

- no cd drive.

+ Light and compact, ideal for on the move

- Can't think of any

+ Have not found anything bad yet. For my needs it is perfect.

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+ clarity of screen, easy to use

- No instruction booklet

+ Very pleased with the performance almost as fast as my desktop nice neat little netbook,
Thanks.

- A little dissapointed with the battery life just expected a little longer whilst travelling,

+ Small size and weight

- Battery life and screen resolution a bit limited

+ Small, clear screen. Nice to use keyboard. Large hard drive. Powerful enough for my uses (web surfing)

- Poor speakers.