Advent 4211 netbook

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    PC World's rebadged MSI Wind. Came with Windows XP - replaced with Ubuntu Hardy Netbook Remix.

    Crappy cameraphone picture taken without a flash. (and yes my flat is a tip)

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    1. beechlights 59 months ago | reply

      I've been thinking about one of these but not quite sure if I can justify it. What are your thoughts? I thought the screen hinge felt a bit flimsy when I played around with one in PC World.

    2. secretlondon123 59 months ago | reply

      I think it's great for the price - my other laptop is really old and of a lower spec.

      I couldn't justify buying a 'proper' laptop and this seemed to be a good middle ground between the toy-like 7 inch eee and a bigger machine :)

    3. EZTD 59 months ago | reply

      Saw this reviewed in PC Plus this month. Seems pretty decent!

    4. alaricsnellpym 59 months ago | reply

      Ah, the sweet smell of success! In this case, mixed with the gentle fragrance of new plastic and electronics ;-)

      As for the sizes of laptops... I've always felt there are three niches in my life for a general purpose computer.

      1) Main work machine; originally this was a desktop machine, but since I've turned into one of those awful people who commute from Gloucestershire to London a lot, this now has to be a laptop. But it should be a large laptop with big batteries to support a powerful processor, decent screen, lots of RAM so I can run virtualised development servers, and a reasonable keyboard - it's a portable desktop computer at heart.

      2) A small laptop for systems administration (cabled network and RS232 ports a must, and a CD drive for reading the manual PDFs that come with switches, which is also a CD burner for burning OS install CD-ROMs). Small and light enough that I can balance it easily in confined spaces in server rooms. It doesn't need to have a particularly comfy keyboard or large screen; I can trade those off for physical ease of transport.

      3) A wearable computer with, like, augmented reality heads-up displays and all that stuff, to do all the personal information management, communications (telephony, IM, etc) and all that.

      Sadly, (3) is currently not available off the shelf, although if it did exist it could probably absorb the functions of (2) (perhaps with the help of a USB optical drive rather than an inbuilt one. Heck, if (3) was good enough it could replace (1) as well, although that's a higher technical bar (and would probably weigh me down with batteries).

      So, in the absence of (3) being available, and in the absence of enough money to properly sort (1) out, I'm actually using the 12" PowerBook G4 I bought for (2) several years back for the roles of (1) and (2), and suffering due to its extreme RAM shortage - and the job of (3) is being covered by a mobile phone, a paper notepad, and occasionall access to the laptop...

      ...all rather suboptimal.

    5. lacalavera [deleted] 57 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Netbook Computers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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