Advent 8109

Lasted ages, but very very slow and doesn't have much memory space. The only good thing that I could really say about it is that it has lasted a very long time without dying. BUt then maybe it is still with me becasue I am patient and don't want to throw it out the window.

I have had the Advent 8109 for over a year now.

I would never recommend this to a friend. its blown 4 chargers on me the screen has broke and it is extremely slow. the disk space is very small and wont allow me to hold many songs or movies.

overall this is a poor laptop.

Had my 8109 advent for 3 years it's been very good a bit slow now but

still works well, hopeing to get a new advent 4001 laptop 500 gb 4gb ram.

Ican't complain about it it has'ent let me down i am just due a newer one.

Had my Advent 8109 laptop just 18 months and the screen suddenly had the cracked effect on start up for no reason , now told replacement will cost £130 to replace.

I've had this Advent 8109 laptop 3 years and its only worked for 2.

the motherboard is burnt in the middle

its burned out 5 chargers on me

after about a year and a half it gets really slow.

it sucks.

if your ever going to get a laptop... save for a MacBook. they last YEARS longer.

what i still like about it now is that the speakers are still really loud. and that its easy to use, all the buttons are set out simply so you get to know it pretty quickly.

As per usual with all advents, drivers will always be an issue so pray you never loose your cd. Buy a better brand, with better support.

I don't like Dixons/Currys and PC world, would not dream of buying anything from them, but have to say this laptop is very good quality, and since I fitted a second gig of ram bought from eBay US for £24 it absolutely goes like stink, rapid at video compression, its probably made by Acer, or similar, but have to hold my hands up to Dixons Group, they got this machine right and the price as well, still not going to buy anything from Currys or PC World though.

I ran the Advent 8109 alongside another notebook with more Processing power but lesser RAM. At first, mine shot ahead with light functions such as buffering larger chunks of online media and generally opening programs faster. However, it did fall short when it came to rendering audio or video data and other power hungry applications. Also, I would recommend a heavy end user to arrange for additional storage disk space (I had to buy a separate external Hard Disk drive in addition to my standard 60GB). I would recommend this notebook to someone with basic computing needs and occasional 'adventurism'. For heavier users, adding an extra £50 or so can get you a far better notebook with higher processing power and more disk space.