Comments on: Advent 9212 ultraportable subnotebook

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:00:19 +0000

It was brilliant for a year, but recently, it has started to shut down, when not using the mains plug, for no apparent reason. Although inconvenient, I was happy to use the mains power, until it started to turn off using that as well. I think it’s something to do with the fan, as it gets very hot and the fan is very loud. A temporary solution is to use a laptop stand, with a built in fan, which seems to have done the trick.

Besides this problem, it is a very good laptop, good size, good weight, good speed, good price, not so good sound, terrible battery life. Also some of the keys take getting used to, as they are smaller than a normal keyboard.

But to be honest, I don’t think a better laptop could be found for the same price. (I got mine for £340, about a year and a half ago, a lot cheaper than what it says on this website)

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:20:36 +0000

it’s a good wee laptop but it just switches off when it feels like it which is verey confusing!!! in the middle of drafting a letter or something along those lines, pc world took it had it a whole week and said there was nothing wrong with it! had it a year and thats the only problem im having with it.

By: James

James — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:46:55 +0000

Size is perfect – small enough to be highly portable yet big enough to use as a ‘main’ computer. It is almost exactly the same size as A4 paper, giving an unexpected benefit of being able to slot in your rucksack among your ringbinders quite tidily. Performance is fine – it barely flinches under the strain of dozens of internet tabs, pdfs, word files and so on – it will only struggle under high end gaming. The screen is the same res as a 15″ laptop so there really is no compromise compared to a larger laptop. The keyboard is slightly smaller than usual but it is still easy to use.

Cons are terrible battery life – it usually lasts little over 60 mins, yet can take over 4 hours to charge! Fortunately the mains block is quite compact. The speakers are terrible, many netbooks have better speakers. The fan is very annoying – how can such a small laptop make such a racket??

Given the price, small flaws are acceptable nonetheless.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:44:26 +0000

Perfomance, good but batery life poopoo! However saying this size is perfect as I have had a stroke so can work keyboard with one hand comfortably. Also nice and lite making it easy to handle for me.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:05:34 +0000

“Performance is excellent; battery life, it doesn’t seem long before I am having to plug in the power, I will probably use it off the power all the time now”

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:04:18 +0000

“Small, lightweight and portable, just what I wanted; speakers aren’t good – volume is too low – but with headphones or small external speakers it is fine”

By: Kimberley

Kimberley — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:02:56 +0000

“Extremely portable size, and performance very good for the price; poor sound, battery life average”