I recently invested in a Advent 4211 has a 80gig drive 1 Gig of DDR-2 I have upgraded this to 2 gig, Intel Atom Processor. 1.6Ghz
Currently the machine is running XP, I use it basically to browse the net, Watch media, Play old school games like Fallout 2, Lucasarts classics, Broken sword, Flight of the Amazon Queen.
I like the design of the netbook it's very light a very stylish, nice machine I havent had any problems as of yet and have had it for about 3 months now.
The machine has a few nice features such as a built in webcam which is good quality and comes with similar image manipulation tools found In Mac O/S 10 i.e you can distort your face make it look fat, alienish, ( 1.3MP camera)
802.11B/G wireless ready to go I havent had a problem with the wireless connection has never dropped and it's fast.
4.1 in 1 Card reader built in.
It comes with Microsoft works which I of course uninstall and put Open Office 3.0 on.
If I had to pick a fault with it I would say that the Hard drive not being Solid State could be a problem if dropped. But I tend not to drop laptops :)
I havent tested Linux performance on the machine with the Atom, I may dual boot it with the latest Ubuntu to see how it performs or even stick Debian on it.
I think advent have released a newer version with a 120Gig Drive I paid about £280 from Currys at the time for the model I have. Would make a good christmas present for kids if anyone has any.
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:17:49 +0000
> From: simon@???
> To: hampshire@???
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ebuyer Netbook Bargain
>
> Jon Fautley wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:54 +0000
> > Sean Gibbins <sean@???> wrote:
> >
> >> I quite fancied one of these when I first saw them a few months back:
> >>
> >> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145008
> >>
> >> and eBuyer have just dropped the price dramatically - shame I can't
> >> afford one - was £351, is now £194!
> >>
> >> There is a grumble about the 1.2 GHz VIA processor in the review, but
> >> from Windows user who wants to run Vista and play games on it for
> >> crying out loud! Aside from that it has got a decent 1280 x 768 WXGA
> >> screen resolution, 120 GB hard drive, 1GB memory. Not sure which
> >> flavour of Linux...
> >
> > According to that link.. SLED 10.
> >
> > ... and there was me just about to order one ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > /j
> >
>
> We use quite a few 1.2Ghz fanless VIA C7 CPUs in the office and they're
> not all that bad for office duties. They happily run Windows XP/Office
> 2007/IE/Anti-virus. I've run Debian/OpenOffice on them too although it
> felt slower than Windows. Any intensive task including software updates
> and they do slow to a crawl though (probably the 2.5" laptop HDs we use).
>
> Simon C.
>
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