I’ve been waiting a while for Dell to hurry up and release it’s rumoured Mini-Inspiron. I’d been looking at the alternatives out there but considered that the concept images of the dell drew me in.
That was until i paid a visit to curry’s last week and spotted the Advent 4211. For those that don’t know it’s a clone of the MSI Wind. But I liked what I saw. The unhelpful store assistant had to go away to find out it’s wait despite it been written on the sticker attached to the display model but was helpful enough to inform me that they had none in stock. At the time this actually felt like it might have been a good thing, the delay allowing me time to check up on a model I had largely been oblivious to. of course once i got to read the positive comments that most people had made about the Advent it no longer seemed like such a good thing. A little searching around the DRG groups web sites and I discovered there were some in stock at PC World in Leeds so I reserved it and picked it up the following day.
It turns out the MSI Wind in a different outfit is a fantastic piece of kit. The 1.6Ghz Intel Atom processor supported by the 1Gb of RAM seem more than capable at handling anything I’ve thrown at it so far. The 3-cell battery keeps the wait of the overall unit down but still provides me with the 2 hour battery life I need to travel to York and back everyday. The specs are in fact identical to the latest rumours of the Dell machine, rather than these details suggesting the Dell is getting closer it adds more weight to the fact that it has been completely made up. With details of currently available mini-laptops having a Dell badge slapped on them.
Regardless I’m going to stick with my Advent, which for those of you who a keeping track is named Artemis.
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