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Advent 7111
3.9 stars
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Average Ratings for Advent 7111

  • Screen Quality3.8 stars
  • Battery Life3.7 stars
  • Ease of Use4.2 stars
  • Value for Money3.7 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings3.7 stars
  • Overall Rating3.9 stars

25 Reviews For Advent 7111

  • Guest 28th May 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    The Advent 7111 is an excellent piecs of kit, had mine about 2 and bit years...apart from the odd battery / charger problem, nothing. Well worth the money, great buy for me based then.

  • ninaxo 14th Apr 2009

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    The good points of the Advent 7111 are that the screen is wide, and clear. It keeps crashing, turning off at unexpected times.

  • Guest 16th Jan 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Great laptop, never broken down!Have installed Vista Home premium on it and now my 4 year old son uses it more than I do!

  • sufitul 22nd Nov 2008

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    The Laptop comes with Media Center pre-installed and all of its drivers, which is very good. Also, the 1 GB of DDR2 memory and dual-core CPU bring a significant overall performance boost. The harddrive is not too bad as it comes with 80 GBs however, it can be dauntingly slow at times. The LCD widescreen is ideal for watching movies but disappoints at the quality sector because of poor contrast and brightness as well as being particularly delicate which can, in turn, lead to the appearance of som ...

  • scottieg101 Rank: Lance Corporal 7th Oct 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    The day after I wrote my previous message I went to an electrical store called Maplins to try sort of my power cable problem. They sell a universal power cable for £35 which has worked an absolute treat. The power works better than it used to now and I'm glad I went there because the only other option would be to of gone to PC World where they would probably send it off and fleece me out a lot of money. I took my laptop along to Maplins and I was able to test the universal cable in store ...

  • Guest 5th Oct 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Have had this for under 2 years and have had it sent away about 6 times for several problems such as not turning on, faulty charger etc etc. Now for the past few months its been randomly restarting im guessing this is because there may be a problem with the psu in the laptop itself. Also the screen gets like a quick flash which Im guessing is due loose connections.Not to mention this is a rather laggy machine and the graphics card is too basic and the closing mechanism is very cheap. This is not ...

  • scottieg101 Rank: Lance Corporal 25th Sep 2008

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    I have had two previous laptops (Sony & Compaq) and I must say the Advent one I have now has pleasantly surprised me in its performance and speed. I use it for work, programmes such as Revit and CAD and social use including gaming and it has always ran efficiently and quickly for everything. The laptop itself is simply the best around for the price, I have had mine for a year and a half and never experienced problems associated with the actual laptop, however the power cable is a different sto ...

  • Guest 3rd Sep 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I've owned an Advent 7111 fo nearly 2 years and use it 10 hours a day, every day for heavy business use.

    I run MSSQL, a webserver and Photoshop and it handles it all.

    It has been the most reilable computer I've used in 20 years.

  • Guest 20th Aug 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    The internet receiver kept breaking it was slow to load and start and with programms such as itunes it crashed. I hated it.

  • Guest 31st Jul 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    The Advent 7111 is overall a brilliant pc. Ideal for a first time laptop of any age as its very easy to use, good for younger ages for the first laptop and for the older generation that cant work with complex technology. Brilliant specifications and plays DVD's, Music and nearly all kind of media I have tried. Well recommend this Advent laptop, only bad point for me is the battery life runs out rather quickly when working with playing music or games, but this is expected with most laptops and I ...

  • Guest 5th Apr 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Quite good for gaming and good for programmers, a little heavy
    for collage students in my opinion, and the power lead splits after a year of
    carrying it round in a laptop bag, apart for this its a very all round
    good laptop for the price. Well recommend this Acer 7111 laptop.

  • Guest 26th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    Seems pc world knew they were using a faulty batch of motherboards, in my opinion anyway, all advent 7111 sold at Christmas 2006 have been breaking down with the same problem as far as I am aware. Pc world denies all knowledge of this problem though in my opinion, many customers are joining forces to raise a public suit against pc world. Therefore I do not recommend the Advent 7111

  • Guest 24th Jan 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    The Advent 7111 is a very good laptop! I had it more than 1 year (I gave it to my girlfriend), now I bought Sony Vaio VGN-aer51e and I can say Advent was better.

  • manrow Rank: Corporal 15th Jul 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    As of today I had a problem of being unable to reactivate my Advent 7111 after long hibernation. Turned it off by holding down on/off button. On restarts kept asking whether to continue start or delete restore files and restart? Chose continue start option 3 or 4 times to no avail - just continued to show original message again and again. Finally in desperation selected 'delete restore files and restart' which it did. Would not then shut-down. Selected System Restore from 2 days previously and n ...

  • junooni38 4th Jun 2007

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I am really happy with my Advent 7111. Value for money I will recommend this product.

  • Nickgoodwin Rank: Lance Corporal 23rd May 2007

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    I got this laptop as a present. Thought it was really good. Within the first week it crashed so I took it to PC World. They did a "system recovery" it worked again for a week then crashed again. So I took it back and they did another "system recovery". Yay! It worked again. Another week later it crashed. I was angry at this point so I rang the tech guys. They picked it up, when I finally got it back after a whole month and 2 weeks it was working slower than it was before so I though "Oh well, it ...

  • tourish 20th Apr 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    The tech guys are also slow in getting parts, they've had the laptop a month now saying they are waiting on parts.

  • anneb Rank: Lance Corporal 26th Feb 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    Looks a lovely laptop, but obviously the problem i am having has put me off

  • Uncle Fester 13th Feb 2007

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Well, I got my Advent 7111 for Christmas 2007. It probably wouldn't have been my first choice for a laptop, but, so far I'm very please with it.

    Two draw back's to it 1) Windows XP media. Just 3 days after Christmas it was BSODing about 3 times a day and no restore were included. Apparently you have to call Tech Support and wait 28 days to get them!. So I got rid of XP and installed PC Linux OS. Installed first time and had a full working desktop in 30 min. As yet no crashing!!!
    2)The PCI s ...

  • manrow Rank: Corporal 31st Jan 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    Haven't yet discovered how good/bad PC World repair systems are as cannot find receipt at the moment. Will let you know!