I'm looking for a laptop that is small and lightweight, and will predominantly be used for surfing the internet, and maybe a bit of office work and day to day applications. I'm not going to be storing music or photos on it as this is done on the desktop.

I've seen these two particular models and would welcome opinions on them as to whether they would be suitable, they are:

Advent 9912 at £399

Intel celeron M Processor C530
12'1" Widescreen display
1 GB Memory
80 GB Hard Drive
Windows Vista Home
DVD Drive
553 MHz FSB


or

Advent 9112 at £479

Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 1.73GHz
12" screen
2GB memory
160GB Hard drive
Windows Vista Home
DVD Rewriter


Cheers

i've just bought a sony vaio dul core t2310,15.4 inch wide screen,2gbmemory,160gig hd.vista rewriter,4 usbs.
£499
can't rate it highly enough.

Lenovo ThinkPad R61i 7650 - Pentium Dual Core T2310 / 1.46 GHz - RAM 1 GB - HDD 120 GB - DVD-Writer - GMA X3100 - Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN : Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g - TPM - Vista Home Premium - 15.4

£379 Bargain and Very well built! for the price

To be frank stay away from the Advents let the flaming begin! Owned one installed 6 and repaired a couple wouldn't touch them with a 300Ft barge pole :P

Although the laptop specs are supposedly ok for Vista (according to Microsoft), most independents recommend 2Gb of RAM and a 2Ghz processor.

I wouldn't go with an Advent at all.


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You can get a Dell laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled for £269 which would be perfect for web surfing, email, photos, music and word processing - all the software you need is already on there.

Stay away from Advent. Build quality is poor - just Google for 'advent build quality' and you'll see that others agree.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=advent+build+quality&btnG=Search&meta=