[jaws-uk] Advent 4211 PC

Hi all.

I recently purchased the Advent 4211 from PC World and collected it from my 
local store this morning.

I have installed JAWS and Office 2003 on it so far.

The reviews of this PC all suggested that it was a joy to use as the keyboard 
was a better size than some of the recent cheap ultra portable PCs currently on 
the market.  when I had a hands -on of the Advent 4211, I noticed that the unit 
was very small and lightt, weighing in at somewhere around 1.2 KG.  I also 
noticed that the keyboard covered the whole width of the unit and so it is easy 
to type on.

I won't go in to a massive description here as a google search for Advent 4211 
review will come up with lots of useful results.

What I can say however is that this PC works well with JAWS and Office and 
should be good for note taking, creating spreadsheets, browsing the internet 
and email.  It would probably just about cope with scanning as well but forget 
voice recognition.  The unit has one of the new Intel Atom 270 processors and I 
would guess it works as well as one of the middle of the range Celeron 
processors used to work a few years ago.

anyway, I found the keyboard very easy to use and quite logically laid out, and 
the keys are a decent size.

  The battery is a bit poor, as it is only a 3 cell battery but a better 
battery with 6 cells should be available sometime in the next couple of months. 
 this means battery life is currently only about 2 hours.

The Advent 4211 is sold only in PC World as far as I know, but actually the 
PCWorld support website www.thetechguys.com seems to have a list of useful 
documents and or downloads including instructions, latest drivers etc.

This PC is the same as the Microsoft Wind which has also had great reviews.  It 
is cheaper here because it does not come with a carry case and the warrantee is 
a year longer. 
Regards

Graham
Graham Page
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