Not worth rushing to buy (Advent 4211)

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Product:	Advent 4211
Date:	02/01/09 (59 review reads)
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Advantages: Small so easily hidden and light

Disadvantages: Battery, Squashed keyboard, Can scratch easy, Bluetooth can be fiddly.

Ok laptop nothing worth rushing to get.
I have had this laptop for about 2 months now, i have had a few minor problems with it, 1) a screw coming loose and rattling around inside 2) very noisy fan at start up maybe related to no 1. 3) line out socket loose (i am not rough with plugs etc) other than these 3 issues not many other probs. I do not recommend this for anything but office work and light work at that! e-mails and browsing no problem. Battery only lasts about 1:30 which is poor compaired to some little laptops. The laptop struggles to multi task e.g. browse, listen to music and have photoshop open. These are mostly what I use it for apart from one online game (second life) this laptop will load it but is very slow which is understandable as it was never meant to play games like this. I am looking for a new laptop to replace this one as an everyday laptop for multi tasking etc as for this one it will be used for work for when I have to move around. This laptop would be ideal for someone who needed to use it while on a business trip only to keep in contact via msn/skype or for the older generation like my nan who uses hers to check e-mails, chat on msn and skype along with browser based games on pogo this laptop is ideal for those people. I would not recommend this laptop for a young child or for a teenager it just woulden't cope with the demand that they would require for it to be 'cool'. I would also recommend if you were buying this to get a skin to cover it when not in use as it does tend to scratch easy if left out and about or in your handbag with keys etc it would scratch, also a better battery! Bluetooth is quite easy to use although can be fiddly if you have never used bluetooth on a laptop before. Keyboard is ok again the page up and page down are hard to get to you have to hold down Fn and NumLk then select page up or down before you press Fn and NumLk again to cancel the NumLk this can be very annoying ( i keep forgetting that i have NumLk on) other than that no problem its ok for general and office work.

Summary: All in all its ok but not the best around!

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