Advent Laptop

whatawaster

I found this laptop on pc world's website. It seems to have everything i need for basic college work, dvd watching, internet browsing and a bit of football manager. It's in my price range, and seems to have pretty good specs for that price. I am wary of the brand though - i've never heard of advent. Does anyone have any experience of them?


Anyway, here she is:

ADVENT 7098
€799.97



Processor Type Intel PMP 735
Processor speed 1700 MHz
Memory Size 1024 MB
Memory Type DDR 2
Hard Drive Capacity 60 GB
Optical Drives DVDRW Dual Layer
CD-ROM Speed 48 x
CD-RW Speed. 24 x
DVD-ROM Speed 8 x
DVD-RW Speed 4 x
Screen Size/Type 15.4" WXGA TruBrite
Graphics Card Type UMA
Graphics Memory 128MB shared
TV-out Yes
Sound Type AC97 16 bit Stereo
Modem Type 56k
Wireless Enabled Yes
No. of USB Connections 4
No. of Firewire Connections 1
Infrared Port Included Yes
Other Interfaces PC Card Slot, WiFi
Battery Type li-ion
Battery life (up to) 4.5 hours
Software Titles Included Microsoft Works 8.0

TerrorFirmer

Advent are a PC World brand. I've heard a few complaints about them, but I own one which personally I find is great, and online reviews say they're a solid enough machine generally speaking.

That price though, is merely average. For 949 though, Pc World have an Advent 7093 with Core Duo T2300, 1gb Ram, 256mb Geforce 7400. Much, much better and definately worth it for the extra 150. Its ok for games too, which the above machine certainly would not be.

c - 13

I had an advent until a few months ago - 7062 i think it was ? Overall it was a grand laptop, never had any real problems with it and could handle almost everything I threw at it. The only problem I has with it was the fan was so LOUD the thing sounded like a helicopter taking off.