Advent 4211 MSI Wind full hands on review

[Wellsy12341]

im gettin it for my b-day

[dodykid4ever]

is that jordie accent i hear?

[XboxRocks77]

56 secound's boot time on your 4211, well it really depends on how much stuff you have in it when i first got my laptop it was mega fast and it took like 25 secounds after installing stuff and putting files the next day, it was around 1minute 5sec

[sTaNdUp41]

or the samsung nc10

[mikeysmith121]

i have got one

there wicked, fast, and i take it on the train with me, it doesn't attract to much attention unlike my old laptop.

just a question. what is the software is the clock on the right handside on your desktop ??

[sTaNdUp41]

google desktop

[Tedzy]

"I don't like it."

[RMCaird]

This one ...

[GreekHuman]

Just Perfect?

[dil650]

hi great vid did you get a backup cd with it

[DTM300]

No. Netbook's don't have a cd/dvd drive.

If you ever want to re-install xp ( or any other OS ), you need to get the files and put them on a USB stick and make the USB stick bootable.

[USERNAMExL0ADING]

can its system handle itunes

[BenedictC]

Yeah its got a 1.6GHz processor so it'll support quite a bit

[olgalucia51]

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

[ricky91tt]

The 4212 has a smaller screen only 8.9" they are competing more with acer aspire one and eeepc... It isn't based in msi anymore it's based on elonex i think

[olgalucia51]

oh ok thanks :)

[Iloveluigi145]

The 4212 has a much better graphics chip, about twice as fast as the one in the 4213 and much more advanced (DX10.1, unified shaders ect compared to DX9 and no hardware vertex shader for the chip in the 4213).

[PHONECRZY]

jest a apple sticker on the advent logo and it will really look like a apple computer in shrieked size! lol

[peaps]

I took mine back because USB mice did not get detected if plugged into the right hand side USB port. Very strange.

[PHONECRZY]

USB mice and keyboards mostley work on the back of the laptop.

[matteuklol]

HAHA upstares!

[easi50]

How much does the power supply weigh? Anyone know where you can buy a 6 cell battery for the Advent 4211?

[j3k2006]

FYI: MSI Wind U100 and Advent 4211 use the same battery.

[crashlock]

I like the colours.

They make it look more like the MacBook Air.

[opto86]

Hi all,

Go to PC World and get it price matched to their pc world business site. I got mine for £218 inc VAT !!!!!

[handscombmp]

sorry how do you do this. on the pc world business site its the same price. have i missed something?

[Pollmak]

Are those pants on the bed..lol

At least the 4211 is not pants. It's a great machine.

[casire]

loool he is getting shouted at XD

[7up23]

how long dose it last for with out charger in it ? plzz re???

[christoffera]

Using Nokia N95?

Nice quality thought!

[Methanoid]

Your Mum is great, your choice of pants less so... Has Mum posted anything on YouTube yet? She's a star in the making!!

[chriss665]

Does anybody know if it will run Firefox OK? as I prefure it IE

[ouijaouija]

its not 6 cell anymore, only 2 hrs with 2200mah battery... I wanna nkow if its processer can handle msn messenger and winamp...

[gratedcarrot]

Of course it'll run them!

[ouijaouija]

this isn't as good a buy as i thought, the battery sucks.. the eee 901 is simlar price and spec, 6600mah battery and less memory, but it is ssd so i think the 901 is a better portable laptop

[casire]

the 901 isn't as cheap and i like the advent better the keyboard on it is nice and stuff

[mvanstaveren999]

MSI Does give you a 6 cell battery now a days.

The colour wich you said was a "scrapyard" is only available on the ADVENT(uk) version.

The Ram is upgradable to 2 GB, I believe you get 1 slot. So you can plug in one stick.

Nice pants btw, other then that its a good revieuw.

[ouijaouija]

hi, i was wondering whether the ram is upgradable, and if you can under/overclock the processer? Also can this handle video streaming, especially winamp???? Thanks

[psj3809]

Nice review, think next time you should hide your boxer shorts though and make sure your mum is out !

After a nice UMPC, this could be the one. Thanks for the review, very helpful

[Richardson1963]

Hi, Thanks for the review. I'm just concerned about the battery life. i suppose I could always buy a 6 cell battery but then it's more cost compared to the Asus 901's battery life. Can't decide! Asus 901 or Advent 4211. It's a shame there are no low cost 3G enabled laptops yet to free me from my dongle.

[lovesarita]

Thanks! please can you advise if it meets Dragon NaturallySpeaking requirements? thanks!Intel® Pentium® / 1 GHz processor (eg, Pentium® M, Pentium® 4), or equivalent AMD® processor - Faster processors will yield faster performance; 512 MB RAM; 1 GB free hard disk space; Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP1 or higher) Home and Professional, 2000 (SP4 or higher), Vista (32-bit); Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording; CD-ROM drive (required for installation)

[dadaboemia]

I live in the UK. Soon going home and want to take one of these with me.

BIG QUESTION>

Can the Advent 4211 by any means be worse than a "proper" MSI Wind? PLEASE ANSWER ANYONE.

I ask cause I have no idea about both trademarks. I have so far used Toshiba.

And with the Advent in PC WORLD it seems I can ask for more hard disk...

[lovesarita]

hi, just watched a thorough comparison of the two on youtube and they're identical except advent is cheaper and a little lighter.

[BlakeVII]

One of the better reviews on this machine.

Well done.

Tell your mum to take it easy!!!

[BlakeVII]

What I don't like is the thick border frame around the screen. Makes the screen smaller than it is or more claustrophobic.

I like the two tone look of the book.

Good idea to arrange the icons on the top.

Very disappointed with the 'power brick' charger. And because the three cell is the only battery supplied with the machine you're going to be relying on the charger alot more than if you had the six cell battery.

[JimmySquall]

useful review- thanks- think I'm gonna go ahead and get one, but, can anyone tell me how you can load word onto it... cos it has no cd built in...? (Probably very dumb question I know.)

[AdamRan]

A simple solution is to use an external cd drive, there are other ways of over coming this problem though.

[markoresko]

MSI Wind has 100Mbit network and it is REEL shame they put 3-cell battery in Atom-powered mini-notebook. It is design flaw but that is where Msi will make money.. On people who will going to buy extra 6-cell or 9-cell battery..

Pretty shameful 3-cell battery for such a nice machine. I also HATE 100Mbit lan instead of Standard Gigabit. Also, touch-screen should be nice.

[chaxelos]

Waaah is that your Boxer Short?(in the background) hahaha anyway nice review XD

[sTaNdUp41]

lmao sorry yeh!!!....forget to put the washing away

[bishbashproductions]

Nice review ! What kind of RAM slot has it got if I was to upgrade it ? is it SODIMM or DDR or DDR2?

Thanks

[bellroy501]

Kingston 5300 SODIMM-1 GB DDR2 667, thats the ram i used, works great.

[ojideagu]

its very hard to get in london hardly any PC World stores have enough or any stock and it sells out fast.

[bluemotrax]

same, I think I'm gunna get this instead, or just wait for the 'proper' Wind to come out. The burden of the EEE 901 is its keyboard, and since I'm gunna be using it mostly for word documents and typing, thats a BIG issue. (and the Wind is cooler ;) )

[analgesics]

bril review

[rdt1970]

hmm i wish they do it with alloy cover and tablet screen!

Can you play avi file so we can see if there any judder

[TheImplodingVoice61]

True enough - there are a lot of ultra portables coming out now.. but only the Asus Eee PC is available in Canada.. albeit still very hard to find though (only available through two large online retailers and a handful of specialty computer stores in the large cities). The MSI Wind and the Acer Aspire One were supposed to hit the shelves on July 1st, and the ETA for ship date on the large sites is still 3-5 weeks... aye.

[TheImplodingVoice61]

Cool cool. Thanks for the review. I'm right now torn between the MSI Wind and the Acer Aspire One...

The only thing I don't like about the Wind is the HDD, I would much prefer a SSD even if there would be less storage - I would be using the machine for school anyways, and word documents only take up so much room.

The battery issue is a big one.. I would've liked a 6 cell battery as well.

How available are these in the UK? I know that it isn't available in Canada at all yet.

[wolfy1791]

Awesome review! im so gettin one of these now! :)