Advent 4211

PC World, as far as I'm aware no longer sell the ADVENT 4211/4211C except for refurbished ones that can be purchased at the PC World website. I purchased a refurbished ADVENT 4211C about a week ago and overall I'm pleased with my purchase but there are a few bad points towards this netbook.

The good points are towards the webcam quality and keys on the keyboard. The keyboard size stretches to almost the netbook's width and I'm glad they did this otherwise the keys would have been extremely small. The keys are a good size from a netbook's point of view, but comparing to a laptop they're quite smaller so it takes sometime at first time use to get use to them.

The webcam quality is amazing and I thought it would be as I also own an ADVENT 5611 laptop which has a good quality webcam too.

The speakers are typically average but are good for a netbook in my opinion.

The downsides of this netbook is first of all it has no CD/DVD drive but you can easily purchase an external drive that plugs in to your netbook via a USB port...no problems there. The touchpad is the other problem, it uses the same texture/material as the netbook itself and its not as smooth (as, for example, my ADVENT 5611's touchpad) so its difficult to use to me; I try using my finger on the touchpad but its just not smooth and too jittery/juddery. I'm having to use an external mouse most of the time due to this problem.

Apart from that its a great netbook, the screen size is very small compared to a 15.4" laptop (the screen size of this netbook is 10") - but "overall" I like it, great portability.

I would recommend this netbook but the touchpad texture/material really puts it down. I'd rate this purchase 7.5/10 due to the touchpad; but I don't intend on taking it back to PC World - I like it.