Advent 4211 Netbook Review

I bought a 4211 in September last year. I am delighted with it except for one thing. When I am typing, strings of letters suddenly jump onto the wrong line or even into a different programme! It is very irritating because I have to cut and paste them back where they belong Surprisingly, whilst typing this it has not jumped once! Quite a miracle!! I wonder if anyone else has had this problem and if so how did they solve it?

Week 3 of ownership and I'm really enjoying my Advent 4211c. Poor battery performance seems to be its only drawback so far. Has anybody invested in a 6-cell battery yet and if so would you recommend? And/or a more portable AC adapter/mains charger (e.g. UA1224059112 http://www.ultimate-netbook.co.uk/index.php/Advent-4211/Advent-4211-Batteries-Chargers/Advent-4211-NetBook-UK-Mains-Charger-AC___23.htm?Details )?

I purchased a refurbished ADVENT 4211C yesterday and everything's perfect except the touchpad. The touchpad uses pretty much the same material/texture as the netbook's cover and for me its not as smooth to move about on the touchpad than other ADVENT laptops - I have an ADVENT 5611 laptop for example. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't really want to use a mouse too much, as I purchased this machine for ultimate portability.

The netbook is fantastic - the keys are a little smaller than on a standard laptop but they're probably surely bigger than other netbooks; you get use to the keys after an hour or so of first use.

The size of the touchpad doesn't bother me, its the texture/material of it that is difficult to move your finger on without it being jittery/juddery.

I had initial wireless connection problems where it wouldn't connect and the status was continually "Acquiring network address" and sometimes it would connect but it would state "Limited or no connectivity available". I initially installed the new wireless drivers available for the netbook: http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={e3a3c398-7c18-45be-ad1a-f7ea950d509b}&CatID={789879f1-f9f1-470a-86b6-3445bf15cc31} (this wireless driver update will also fix the problem for those having sudden wireless connection drops) and then went to the Start menu -> right click on 'My Computer' and selected 'Properties'. From there I went to the 'Hardware' tab and selected the 'Device Manager' button. From the Device Manager next to network adapters press the + icon and then right-click on whatever is labeled 802.11b/g Mini Card Wireless Adapter #2 or similar and select 'Uninstall' and confirm you'd like to uninstall it. Then once that's done go to 'Action' from the menu in device manager and select 'Scan for hardware changes' and it'll install the wireless driver back and it should connect!

For those PgUp, PgDn, Home and End FN keys don't work there is a BIOS update available that'll fix that and many other issues: http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?CatID={4249b70b-6186-4e78-a736-48376dd4aac3}&ID={5369a6ed-3e45-4381-9b3f-89014d901f4d} make sure before and while installing the BIOS update you remove the battery pack as instructed on the TechGuys article on how to install the BIOS update.