MSI Wind vs Advent 4211

[TravMenace]

You sneaky bugger! I saw you check your hand.. Twice! You should remember these things.. or put them on a piece of paper out of view.. ;)

[kalosanin]

medion akoya e1210/1212 is also the same €329 march 2009

[fluffyfairy321]

ARGOS have the MSI wind for £199, in black, white or pink. I have bought 2 of them for my daughters for Christmas

[patsybob]

the advent 4211 is way cheaper you can get it refurbished for 180 pounds from pc world online in the uk!!!!

[houtakiboy]

I have an Advent 4211, and I'm extremely fond of it. Alas, it came with a 3-cell battery. I found a seller on ebay who supplies more powerful 9-cell batteries for this model. Im wondering if it's safe to use a larger capacity battery on the 4211. How long will a 9-cell last on one charge? Im assuming 3 to 4 hours.

[tompster101]

the msi could be better but the advent certainly looks better.

[scaleop4]

i got the same netbook as this but i used the msi wind bios. with that bios you can overclock it in the bios by 24%

1.6 to 2.0ghz

very good netbook

[KevinMillard68]

i bought the black MSI Wind U100 for 328.00 canadain at walmart and its a great net book i love it

[Catacylsm]

I can answer the price question! ADVENT ARE DESPARATE, MSI aren't :P

[xoio]

That was a Naive comment.

Advent is an OEM brand owned by PC World, who are arguably the largest high street PC seller in the UK. - Hardly 'desperate'

The Advent 'branded' MSI is cheaper than the true MSI, simply because MSI hike the price of their own brand. And of couse take their product to market first, a little before they offer the OEM out to the other manufacturers.

[Catacylsm]

Yeah mainly because they keep selling other peoples machines, they may be the highest street seller, but its pretty much a fact that advent produce low quality machines with a high failure rate, everyone knows that.

They tend to favor the acer range, but they also have a fairly common problem in which the cpus spike alot of the time to 99% (its reported everywhere) and bios updates havent done that much either.

[xoio]

Well thankfully with the 4211, they chose to use a well put together machine being the MSI Wind, & simply re-badge it with a different colour chasis only. :-)

[tombofrog]

Heavy files on the hard drive!

OH AHAHAHAHAHA

THATS SOOOOO FUNNY

WHAT A WIT!

[Nismology5]

the white msi wind looks so much nicer tho

[KetanM2]

i cant decide weather to get the wind or 4211c, i like the 4211c because its silver and black plus great priced the wind is little bit more but you get a great computer, but i dont like the fact its all 1 colour.

[Nismology5]

they are exactly the same computer on the inside. The advent is just rebranded

[KetanM2]

well i mean which design should i get the msi wind or the 4211c's design

[jamsea07]

every advent pc is a rebrand witch can be a pain as lots of the time you dont know what the b4 rebrand pc was so it could be rubbish

[acalthu]

Is the advent still available? I can't find them anywhere, not even on ebay.

[steffyanie]

hi i noticed that you posted this video quite a long time ago but i still hope you get to read this ... i have the asus eee pc notebook right now but iam planning to sell it and buy the msi wind U100 instead... will it be a good choice?? is the msi wind better?

[Skys1The1Limits]

yes it is and if u like games u can play it on msi wind aswell there is a little turbo button and u can make games run fast as hell xD

[GULMORK]

just random because the dude is english but i looked in a book of names, my name is a english name,braaaaaaaandon,

[kurtfromlourdes]

thanks !

[azaas]

darn was i the only one looking at the watch [Omega] :P

had to watch the video a second time to be able to focus on the MSI lol btw great prodcut

ps: next time go for a Jaeger Lecoultre :D

[roIcVky]

how are these for ms word and powerpoint? also im not sure whether to get 4212 or 4211 and 4213 which are more expensive. help!!

[Macinabit]

don't go much on the wobbly screen!

[Bimm3rcc]

its really rare to see an advent here in denmark

so i just bought the Msi 2gb / 160gb / 3+6cell

dont care what one i have :)

[andyqwerty1992]

im confused, how can they be the same?

[ojideagu]

The insides are identical. The technology was sold to other companies to rebadge.

[jacktastic5]

advent ROCKS!

but one now! i did and am using it now wooo!

(it is AWESOME best laptop i have owned)

[cheesechase]

Thanks for this review man... I'm looking to get a small cheap notbook for writing stuff

[ProManual]

funny guy :D

[bluetech7753]

How do reinstall the os and drivers if they don'g have optical drives?

can you use and external optical drive?

Unlike the mac book air the use remote disk to reinstall the software.

[SHadyDAGGER]

they give there drivers at there site to download.

[hpphotosmartc4180]

best review ive seen for the advent 4211.

im gonna buy one and upgrade it to 2gb RAM.

[StefanH1234]

Why did they make two of the same laptops from different companys???

[chucktaggart]

MSI Wind now comes with 4400mha battery.

[olgalucia51]

what is the difference between the advent 4211 and the advent 4212??

[dazxy2001]

The 4212 is a rebadged ECS G10L

[flashx2productions]

Well the advent only has a 80geg hardisk and 540mb ram! The new Msi wind has 160geg harddisk (THATS DOUBLE!) it also has a new 2geg ram and a 6 cell battery!

But good review!

[ojideagu]

The advent has 1GB ram its never had 540mb. Only recently can you get the MSi for £295 with 120GB hard drive. but it doesnt have 2GB for that price.

[ojideagu]

The Advent with 120GB is available for 274. So its still £20 cheaper then the MSI for the same specs.

[farcortex]

is advent 4211 display LED backlit? as WIND or something else?

[Luccasio1]

they looks great both.

[z08y]

The MSI is better, since it's an Advent without the bugs.

[tattootroy]

can you post th elink to pc world busness site so i can get it for £218

[ryanbycraft]

" maybe it's lighter because there are more files in the MSI WIND........ Well that's a joke... Oviously" lol, and yes i know, i can't spell.

[Harred]

Nice video, laughed a out loud a little at the joke.

[Nabs141]

Thanks great video :D

[vasilibaev]

does anyone know any website/shop in the UK where I could get a 6-hour battery life battery for my Advent 4211?

[opto86]

Hi watchtheskies,

Yes it does have a spare sodimm slot. I upgraded mine by adding another 1gb pc6400 sodimm module so it now has 2gb.

You have to take the whole bottom cover off to get to the spare slot though. there is around 10 screws.

hope that helps

[watchtheskies]

Hi mobilecomputermag, can you tell me please, is it straight forward to upgrade the ram, does it have standard user upgradable memory?

[houtakiboy]

I got my Advent 4211 in a Dublin branch of Dixons last week and paid 399.99 euro for it. Thats 351.00 in UK sterling. We are so being ripped off in Ireland. But I love the laptop. Its so neat and quick. I reccommend this laptop to everyone

[elikoenig]

If you had gone to PCWorld you could have got it for 379.99 euro! I bought one from PCWorld the day they came into stock and paid 399.99 euro. The next day I was buying something else and saw they had been reduced to 379.99 euro. They refunded me the 20.

[opto86]

Forgot to mention..........you can get another battery anyway at parts master for £33.75 and it will STILL beat the spec and price of most of the other netbooks out there!

[opto86]

Hi all,

Got to PC World and get it price matched to their PC World business site. I got mine for £218 inc VAT !! - Also extra for 1gb more ram and 250gb hdd with a total price of £272!!

Downsides of this laptop is battery life of around 3hrs, poor speaker quality (doesnt really matter though) and no screen latch. Otherwise, for that price you cant go wrong.

Also heard that MSI will release a 6 cell battery for their new model!!

Have a good day all....

[screig]

how did you get the price match, did you do it over the phone? Did they put up a fight?

thanks sean

[tattootroy]

can you post the pc world busness site so i can get it for £218 plz

[iPidd]

lol @ hdd joke... seriousness made it funnierer...

[7up23]

how long dose the bat last for ??/ thanks :D??? with out the power adapter in ?

[rdt1970]

speakers are crap and battery life on advent not great i got mine on first days of release a4211 that is. sold it a few weeks later as i need a umpc tablet with better speakers sound is just awful everything else is okay

[CynicalPhuker]

This is very cool, I have heard some upgraded the 80GB Hard Disk to a 250 GB one instead!!

[shoelace510]

The reason the Wind is more expensive at this time was because the Wind wasn't released, so having to preorder it is ALWAYS more expensive with anything you buy...

[klingondude]

The screen on the Advent looks a teeny bit bigger, or it could just be me. :P

Do any of the 2 have an Optical Drive?

[shoelace510]

They have the exact same screen, and neither have an optical drive...

[lovesarita]

thanks for this. you lost me a bit at the end - are you saying we could use the money saved on an advent buy buying an msi wind battery? cheers for the clarification. Also i've heard they come with a very heavy power brick and lead - is that true? how heavy is very heavy! thanks

[PresidentBushed]

mizanaliashraf well done for tracking one down. Posh Kensington eh!! - did you know that in Burger King in Kensington they sell a burger called 'The Burger' for £95.00!!!

[mizanaliashraf]

i finally got my advent 4211 last week from pc world in kensington. im using it right now. i must say i really like it. its better than i thought it would be.

[DEXXXO]

will The Advent alsou have the interated Bluethoot 2.0 ? and a 1,3MP like the MSI U100 or a 0,3 MP Web cam?

[HTF33]

yes it is EXACTLY the same

[PresidentBushed]

5 days into having purchased said Advent, all is well, doing all I expected it to do and perhaps a little more.

a few pixels appear to have gone on the screen, is this normal or should one complain / return for replacement?

[sonofgob]

informative, thanks and keep up the good work!

[PresidentBushed]

PS: The spelling mistakes in my last post were down to me and had nothing to do with the Advent keyboard!

[PresidentBushed]

Curry's in Enfield is where I found some in stock.

Am using it now to type this, am very pleased with the purcahse, I don't think I could have lived with the eee c 901 due to the tiny keys on the keyboard

[mizanaliashraf]

which currys did you go to?

[bluemotrax]

I think the Advent uses a cheaper make of RAM and a cheaper hard-drive (making internal component compromises) to lower the price and possibly along with the absence of the MSI badge. That's what I heard somewhere.

[PresidentBushed]

Thanks for the review. I too have found it impossible w/c 14/07/08 to purchase the 4211 via PC World all over London. I purchased one today via Curry's (owned by PC World I think - or vice virsa?) - hope you will have some luck in finding one.

[mizanaliashraf]

i've tried to get hold of the advent 4211 for over a week now. none of the pc world stores in london seem to have them. its so annoying