New Advent 4213 Netbook
Well guys and gals after the huge success of the Advent 4211 there is a new boy on the block. Welcome to the Advent 4213
We haven’t had out hands on it yet to give it the usual abuse we like to give netbooks but what’s apparent is this is not a re-badge of the fabulous MSI Wind.
PC World , Dixons and Currys are selling these units for £349.99 and the specs include an Atom processor, built in mobile broadband (3G), 10.2″ wide-screen display, 1GB Memory and a 160GB HDD and we believe it will come with a 6 cell battery although unconfirmed. The operating system is Windows XP and will more than likely to bundled with Works etc.. although again not confirmed to us at this stage. To us it looks rather like an ECS G10L netbook which has had the Advent re-badge treatment but until we see some concrete reports or physically get one in our office take that as speculation.
We would love to hear from anyone who can confirm some of the whispers we’ve heard so feel free to leave a reply.
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September 12th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I have one of these - can confirmyour specs inc 6cell (but only 3600MaH battery). Comes with xp and ms works.
Certainly looks like a black version of the ecs
regards
Spants
September 12th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I tried this in my local PC World. The keyboard is awful. I mean really awful. That’s all i gotta say about it.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:45 am
Hi, i bought one of these from PC world for £349.99, however mine only came with a 3-cell battery, although thats what I think… (it only lasts for about 3hrs ish)
I’m keen to upgrade the ram, I know it has only one slot, which is currently occupied by the 1gb chip, but I’ve heard this can be replaced with a 2gb chip.
I liked your tutorial on replacing ram for the 4211, please make another for the 4213
November 9th, 2008 at 2:48 am
The 4213 is approaching a decent entry level laptop price and is missing the point, as are all netbooks that aren’t SSHD and priced over £200. An 80gb/120gb/160gb mechanical hard drive is the wrong idea for a light robust portable net access/basic everyday software machine, as it’s far more likely to get dropped/knocked about due to smaller size and weight.
The Atom processor based Acer Aspire 1 basic model is now down to £179 in the UK (so you might amend your “be quick” article) and I was told on the 7th Nov that all the Advent 4211s (MSI Wind rebadge) are sold out at PC World/Curries stores.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Gordon. The point of the increased price is that there is a built in dongle, so no bits sticking out - everything you need is in this little box. Secondly, initial benchmark tests suggest that this machine, at the time of release, was the fastest performing machine out there - Only the Samsung NC10 was faster… and this does not have a 3G device built in. I might also add that the 3G device works to full network speed at 7.2mbps.
The only downside is the keyboard, which could have been made to fit the whole machine, but you get used to it.
The battery life can be conserved by dimming the screen, switching off the sound and puting the CPU in silent mode. An improved battery can be purchased to double the time to about 6 hours full operating, and 24 hours on stand-by - Although, it is likely that the machine will automatically go into hibernation if this has not been configured.
A webcam is built in, with indicator light and mic and is a breeze for comms over the mobile network, as well as wireless - I use o2 where you can pay as little as £2 for 24hour 500mb access, with free wireless access to The Cloud and other o2 points. I think a week costs about £5 and a month £15, but the point of the 24h/1wk charges are that you’re never really away from home or work for that long, so the duration and the costs make sense.
All in all I’m happy. I can sit on the train and browse the net without trying to scramble around for random things to plug in, and I’m even able to run CATIA V5 on it which I am seriously impressed with.