Advent

I have owned my advent 7094 laptop for about 2 yrs now and so i am in a position to comment on its reliability and its capacity to function as a main household computer. It was bought for £300 and hosts a 14.1 TFT screen, 256MB DDR Ram, integrated graphics, a 40GB HDD and a DVD +/- RW. Its pros are fiirstly the cost. I have been able to do most of the things I would like to do with it such as wordprocess, play games, use it as a music studio etc. It has not broken down yet and serves as a replacement for a desktop computer well. The cons are that it is very slow now. Despite being defragmented many times and old programs removed I have still ...  Read the complete review

With Advent you can't be sure what you're going to get because the product could be produced from any one of over 30 different companies. PC World/Curries/Dixons then choose what they consider the best configuration for the price and slap an Advent badge on it. So I would say there is a lot of luck involved with buying a good or bad Advent product. I've found typically that the mid to high spec PC's arn't bad but the laptops are awful and I would never consider buying one. You also need to do your homework on spec because in general if it's cheap, upgrade options are limited at best. Don't be fooled by deals around holiday periods like Xmas ...  Read the complete review

~ The Advent of the home PC? ~ Now I know some people have had some real problems over the years with Advent computers, and perhaps I've just been exceptionally fortunate, but I've still got the first one we bought in 2001 (the Advent 3307 complete unit). Later we also added the Advent T9200 to the fold and that is also still going strong. In fact, the Advent 3307 is what I am using to write this review now, so I can at least vouch for its longevity. Because I'm talking about Advent in general as much as the machines, this review will only have some basic information about specifications on the computers since I don't want to land up with a review ...  Read the complete review

I have had my Advent 3209 for 20 months and after reading the review I thought I would offer my own views. I really have not had many problems with the machine except that after 2 weeks of purchase I had to have a new CD RW drive installed after much telephone conversations (at £1.00 per minute) to customer support and more or less being told I was stupid and couldn't operate it properly. I replaced the 40GB HHD with a 60GB HHD master and a 180GB HHD Slave. I also upgraded the 256DDR to 512DDR. All was working well for a long time until I tried to reinstall the OS just before Christmas 2003. My 60GB c: suddenly became damaged with bad sectors and the ghost ...  Read the complete review

I don't like buying computers. The whole PC industry seems to be one big joke. Last year's PC-buying ritual involved being let down by one mail order company (Novatch), leading to me running out of patience and going into PC World to see what I could pick up. PC World really prefer to do business with car owners, but I was able to get to the Hove store easily enough and it was a short taxi ride home with the goods. Staff weren't very intelligent or knowledgeable, but managed to avoid being offensive (see my Comet review for a true horror story), so no problems there. Here's what I ended up with: Advent 3408 Pentium ...  Read the complete review