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My friend DavoMrMac has a very nice mini review of his new Advent 4211 UMPC over at Geekanoids. The Advent 4211 is a UK only rebadging of the MSi Wind sold exclusively through the PC World chain. Apparently there are no alterations to the unit at all save for a quick logo change from MSi to Advent…plus it seems the Advent is far easier to get a hold of than the Wind.

He is very very happy with the unit overall, especially the screen as he makes clear in his summery:

In use the screen is very crisp and clear. The backlighting seems very even and the brightness is pretty darn impressive. Normally my experience of PC laptops is that the screen never goes as bright as I would like. The Advent 4211 is the first that I have to say I am happy with. A white page is as it should be, white and not grey. After an hours use, the system is running very quietly. I created a restore backup following the instructions, using an SD card. This tooks about 12 minutes, and I suggest you do the same, as it means you have a copy of all the drivers you need too. Overall, the Advent 4211 has impressed. The trackpad is a little small, but again you will get used to it. If you need something really portable thought, then pop into a PC World and take a look. You will be surprised at what £279 gets you.

However, don’t be TOO surprised at what 279 Pounds gets you, as DavoMrMac posted the following postscript to the Pocketables forum, along with more praise for the screen, keyboard and overall weight/size of the device:

Well, after 24 hours I noticed a problem with the screen, a big cluster of glowing red pixels, plus a scuff mark which I had not noticed before, so it went back today. No more stock, so I am waiting for another to be delivered Monday.

We will have to see if more such QA problems come to light as more units are shipped in the coming weeks.

View a slideshow of the Advent after the jump.

Images courtesy of geekanoids.co.uk

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).