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I have both and can’t really decide which one I like the best. With the exception of the Samsungs higher battery capacity and larger hard disk, they have largely the same hardware configuration.
The Samsung is ever so slightly deeper (front to back) and taller – especially at the back where the larger battery pack lifts the Samsung slightly higher. The Samsung feels a little bit heavier, most probably due to the six cell battery back as opposed to the Advent 3 cell pack.

Specifications appear to indicate that the keyboard on the Samsung is somehow larger but I really cannot tell them apart. The trackpad on the Samsung is wider and shorter than the Advent but the overall area is about the same. Personally I prefer the 16:9(?) aspect ratio of the Samsung to the 4:3(?) aspect of the Advent.

Asthetically I like them both.

A few niggles with the Samsung:
1. No neat way to switch off the Bluetooth – The Advent has a usefull function key combination to do this. The only way I could figure out how to do it on the Samsung was to disable the hardware in the Windows device manager. German versions were shipped without Bluetooth so I wonder if the UK version had Bluetooth bolted on as an afterthought.
2. I’m not keen on the glossy black finish of the case – it shows up fingerprints. There is a matte white version of course but I like that even less.
3. I think the bundled applications with the Samsung (especially the web cam software) are not quite as good as those on the Advent. The Samsung also seems to have more unecessary applications running at startup than the Advent.
4. The small speakers on the bottom of the Samsung delivery a really muddy sound. The Advent speakers are closer to the corner and have a slightly larger grille – seems to make all the difference to my ear at least.

These really are minor niggles and I’ll repeat that there is really little to choose between the units.

With the more recently released Advent 4211c having a six cell battery pack and a 120GB hard drive there is even less to choose between them as they both pitch in at around the £300 mark at the time of writing.

Choice for most will largley come down to usable battery life – the Samsung seems to run for at least 6 hours while my three cell Advent runs for just over 2 hours. The newer 4211c apparently runs for around 4 hours.

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