Comments on: Advent 9315 crappy laptops

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:13:36 +0000

Have to admit, Advent laptops are not the greatest. Had one for around a year, was a little slow while using apps such as flash, and also wi-fi was not good. Then, of course, hard drive had to fail. D:

By: Another Random Foolt the power

Another Random Foolt the power — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:46:22 +0000

This laptop is cheap because it is cheap. Had the thing for a few years now and had no issues, apart from poor battery life and the fact it comes with Windows Shitsta. Ran Win7 on it no problem, it is a bit annoying to keep tuning on the wireless but its not too much of a ball ache.
However, since installing Ubuntu 10.10, battery life is now around 2 hours (if it doesnt hibernate when I pull ou

By: Penny

Penny — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:40:13 +0000

Doesn’t matter if the original poster can work computers or not: Advent laptops/notebooks are a pile of utter GASH. Got a notebook and it’s been crap from the word go. SO many annoying things with it. It’s had an external wireless device plugged into a USB for at least 6 months now as (regardless of pressing F10 on and off) doesn’t even find my home wireless anywhere in my house (even from 5metres away). Also, despite being a notebook bought purely for university usage, after carefully carrying it around after a few months A LINE APPEARED DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN. It became increasingly worse, so then it was time to send it away to be fixed. I sent it away – A MONTH LATER (right in the middle of term time no less – raging) it came back, with no line but they hadn’t even touched the wireless – so it still has the USB wireless stick. It’s now 3 months after it was ‘fixed’ and now it had developed another LINE RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN.

Typical that my waranty has just run out…

WOULD BE BETTER IN THE BIN.

I previously had a Toshiba for 3 years prior and it was a laptop of dreams compared to this.

By: Kyuu

Kyuu — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:56:26 +0000

Got this laptop knackered on ebay for 92 quid as a replacement for my recently diseased acer aspire 3100..

I agree it’s a total piece of shit, first thing i did was format debian over the miserable excuse for a operating system known as vista, fucking drivers! Fn doesn’t work on linux, after a bit of searching i found advent are basically just re-branded Chinese sold by pc world, anyway, the same bios updates work for them so i downloaded the update that enables wifi by default, also got rid of the horrible advent logo. =] Now, drivers.. not only are drivers almost non existent, advent them self offer no support; bunch of fuckin’ queers. So you have to spend a good few hours scouring manufacturers websites for the required drivers, next there is no graphics driver for linux, or at least no proper driver. Eventually i gave up and just installed xp planing to come back to it later..

For some reason my laptop only game with 1GB of ddr2 rather than the listed 2GB, and only a 80GB hardrive, still enough for me. The processor though, absolute shit, 1.5, really?! So I ripped that fucker out and replaced with a much nice 1.8, much faster!

Now i just need to sort out this replacement changer; it doesn’t seem to fit well and takes a while to get it into the right position. Also the battery’s dead, but i’m unsure whether it’s worth spending 25 quid on a new one, i hear they only hold a hour charge from new.

Over all not impressed by this laptop, but seen as I only use it maybe one or two nights a week it doesn’t really bother me. For the price i got it for i can’t complain…

The hinges to feel a big wobbly though and the catch no longer works. =/ gay.

By: Utter bullocks.

Utter bullocks. — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:38:22 +0000

The reviewer know just about jack shit about Laptops obviously.
You don’t have to reboot after EVERY driver is installed, just after you finish them all. Duh. Common sense?!. RESTART LATER.

Okay, having to press FN + F10 is annoying, but you’re getting a laptop with a C2D and 2GB relatively cheap. So shut the fuck up. It’s still fairly powerful and does the job. Vista works perfectly on it. Linux works even better though…

And, big deal the SIS GFX are shit, who buys a laptop for gaming anymore anyway? Build a gaming PC if that’s what you want to do. It can play movies fine etc.

All in all it’s a good laptop to be honest, my Sony Vaio gave me more grief and that was £1200.

By: PC Doc

PC Doc — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:05:52 +0000

hi all, my sister bought this laptop a while ago and i will admit she isnt the most computer literate person on the planet.
i hav enow bought the laptop off her as she is moving house and needs the money, lol
but anyway , on to the issues.
for those people that complain about the fn + f10 for the wireless card to turn on, i totally agree, it may not be too much hassle if you are booting into a normal operating system like window, but when running a knoppix or linux distro from disk, it needs to boot the wireless card as its loading so its not a feature that is possible when its loaded.
hence no wireless.
the heat transfer is a problem but upon inspection of the insides of the laptop, the areas at which air can be flowed through, are significantly smaller than should be adequate.
agreed with the comment about vista bieng a waste of space, either, upgrade to windows 7 or go back to windows xp
the asthetics of the laptop seem fine, except missing a hinge cover on this one, and the battery life can be extended using better power management, but i have seen sevral reports of batteries not charging within a few months of purchase.
Overall, not the worst laptop in the world, but has enough flaws to make it one to steer away from if your a computer buyer who doesnt want any fuss.
I will try a bios update later and see if that sorts the wireless on boot problem.

By: paul chaplin

paul chaplin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:40:20 +0000

Just like to note that when i purchased my advent 9315 i looked at the descripion and there was clear indications that it was built to be placed on a desk not on a bed nor lap, taking this into consideration complaining about the heat issue is unjustified as there were clear markings that it simply wasnt buit to be on a bed or a lap. the battery sucks but theres alot worse NOTEBOOKS out there.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:28:44 +0000

has anyone had proplem with paint peeling on computer lid as mine peeling every where.

By: William

William — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:49 +0000

I have had this laptop for about a year now. No major complaints except the fact the battery lasts about 30mins when not plugged in to the mains. does anyone know if you can get a longer life battery ?

By: David

David — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:09:16 +0000

I’ve had numerous problems with my laptop (Advent 9315), mainly the hardware. The base of it heats up regularly, which was a problem with the fan. It was cutting out several times during use as a result which was very frustrating.

I did buy it in Curry’s about 2 years ago and am still paying it off unfortunately. Wouldn’t have ever gone near this computer had I done my research initially. It really gets me down to hear that within the space of 2 years, decent laptops can be bought for a mere 400-500 euro and they don’t experience the same hassle as one bought for double the price and interest to boot. Anyway, I’ll learn from experience as the thing will be mine in a couple of months. For what it’s worth the laptop behaves like it’ll croak at any given point.

So it cut out numerous times and was sent back promptly, 4 times or so, each time returning with the same problem.

I found them to some way polite on the phone, but their maintenance staff cheekily only cleaned the fan the first two times, and after an irate call, replaced it the 3rd time. But when I received it back the CD-Rom was broken. It was jamming and was difficult to close.

So I rang them again(and I hated the way I felt I was inconveniencing them) and stated my case. So it was returned and fixed and returned again to me.

It seems fine at the moment, but I’ve always had a problem with the battery. I can’t leave the laptop operating without it plugged into a socket as the battery won’t last for more than a minute. Yes, and external parts aren’t part of your cover. Typical.

So I was wondering if anyone could help me regarding the battery -

Do I have to get the same spec battery that goes with the Advent 9315 or can I get a similar one? The reason I’m asking this is that the 9315 is a lot dearer than the other series to purchase for some reason.

Oh, and yeah, I’ve never had the wireless function work on this computer.
Not really sure what’s that about.