MSI Wind re-badged alternative :)

looks like linux is a no go for me atm, problem i think is when i used acronis to clone the disk to my 320gb its done something odd to the partition table, now i cant resize or partition my c drive :(
 
Rudeboy said:
The other thing that's making me hold off a bit aswell is the prospect of the dual core atom based umpc's coming on to the market in September.

Not forgetting the Lenovo S10 which also looks pretty cool.

Too many choices :(
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Hmm well this is the atom chip in my 4211.

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Note cores :)

Every year I get a token from a relative to use at the purple shirts shop, and I can honestly say this is the first year I have put it to good use.
It's such a handy little thing to have so you can just browse the web etc without turning on my main PC, and I can never justify a full blown laptop and my smart phones just too small.

A larger battery would have been nice I must admit, but I can get 2 hours light use from this, and thats fine for what I need.
Unlike others, I atually like the rocker action left / right click on the mouse pad.
prob is, my kids all want one ;)
 
split said:
O'h is that what it is...duh me :o

Anyway Bradmax thanks for starting the thread on these as I'm really pleased with mine :)
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:)

I have to say out of all the laptops ive had this is the one im overall happiest with and ive had vostro 1500, XPS M1210 M1330 etc etc, i just love the size, its more than powerfull enough for what its used for if only they could have fitted an optical drive in it would be perfect :)
 
I did this yesterday and the only tricky bits were opening and closing the case. My 4211 now has 2GB of RAM, a 200GB 7200RPM HDD and XP Pro. :cool:
And as I had the RAM and HDD in the parts draw it didn't cost me any extra. :cool: again
 
I added another 1gb to my Advent the other day - £20 from a high street store. It makes a big difference to Windows performance so I'd really recommend it to all other Wind/Advent owners. With a bios flash to 1.07 you can now get 256mb graphics ram available as well.

It appears that there's a new 9 cell battery in development by Mugen. Should be good for 7+hrs battery life!
 
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Trick said:
I added another 1gb to my Advent the other day - £20 from a high street store. It makes a big difference to Windows performance so I'd really recommend it to all other Wind/Advent owners. With a bios flash to 1.07 you can now get 256mb graphics ram available as well.

It appears that there's a new 9 cell battery in development by Mugen. Should be good for 7+hrs battery life!
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seems some people have been having probs with the bios 1.07?
 
aye, and the techguys site still showing 1.05 :(

edit just checked they have 1.08 listed but the link doesnt work :(
 
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The problems with 1.07 seem to stem from people not installing it properly - they then seem to get usb and keyboard issues.
 
Trick said:
The problems with 1.07 seem to stem from people not installing it properly - they then seem to get usb and keyboard issues.
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There were problems with techguys release, because it was set up by default to ignore ps/2 keyboards! So you cant get in the bios to change it back lol.
 
No probs installing it here using the winflash proggy they included with the 1.05 release. Just change the filenames.
 
Picked up my Advent earlier on today. So far i'm very impressed with it, much better than the Eee PC's and feels much more like a notebook. It was sitting beside the Acer one and even then there was no comparison between them. It's just going to take me a while to get used to tryping on it but I dare say after a few uni assignments I'll have mastered it!

Is it necessary to keep all that techquys stuff on it?
 
matthew_o50 said:
Picked up my Advent earlier on today. So far i'm very impressed with it, much better than the Eee PC's and feels much more like a notebook. It was sitting beside the Acer one and even then there was no comparison between them. It's just going to take me a while to get used to tryping on it but I dare say after a few uni assignments I'll have mastered it!

Is it necessary to keep all that techquys stuff on it?
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what stuffs that, tbh there was very little if any bloat on mine? Or do you mean the techguys recovery program?
 
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