Advent 4211 – more gadget lust

The latest addition to the le craic blogging factory. It’s the Advent 4211 as sold by PC World and Dixons.

I’ve been thinking about getting one of this mini notebook things since April. At that stage I thought the Asus EEE PC was the one to go for. then I started to look at Vye – but thinking long and hard about it, I couldn’t justify the almost €1,000 price tag.

The Advent is priced nicely at €399. UK Price is £279 – so we’re paying the usual “Irish” premium. It’s got an Intel Atom processor, 80GB hard drive and 1GB memory. Keyboard is better than I expected and I’m typing away as fast as I would on a desktop keyboard.

Can’t figure out how to switch on bluetooth or the built in webcam though. The instructions say one thing, but when you actual press the keys it says, nothing happens. Maybe someone reading this will have come across it.

It’s a nice alternative to using the desktop pc (noisy) or the laptop (ancient and slow) anyway.