Advent 6555

Quad core CPU ; ATI Graphics ; Blu-ray drive ; 4GB of RAM

Protruding battery ; Hefty size ; Screen not Full HD

A great performing laptop that makes short work of intensive tasks as well as having the ability to play HD movies and some of the latest games

Quite how Advent has managed to cram so much into a laptop for under £1,000 is a mystery to us. It's not without its fair share of issues and some may yearn for a higher native resolution, but in terms of performance the 6555 gives the majority of...

fast laptop for gaming ease of use good design light weight large clear screen

dvd tray opens when picking it up as it is on the left side but at front where you tend to hold when picking up charger cable falls out constantly whilest using the laptop especially if not on a hard surface ,right hand side keys smaller than standard...

Gaming performance

Battery life

ati 4850 graphic card is very good and the Q9000 CPU is fast..... it is on par with my desktop computer what as a amd 6000+ CPU.

144X900 Screen Resolution is a bit low.... it should be no less than 1680 x 1050 because the graphic can play most games in high settings at 1920x1080 when i use the HDMI to go into another monitor i play at 1080p..... and you can only have one hard...

Great value for money,powerful GPU ,great performance

hmmm screen resolution

better performance than high end dells costing more than twice the amount

graphics chip produced artifacts on arrival, and dixons are struggeling to get new parts.

Powerful and great value for money (wish it shipped with XP Pro instead of Vista though). Very quite in operation, which is a change from my old 3Ghz P4 lappy from Aldi a few years back. I have yet to find the time for some serious gaming, but some...

Battery life could be better (~2hrs) but what can you expect? The mouse pad is offset to the left meaning that your left thumb often brushed across it inadvertantly when typing or gaming; why not centred? beats me why it is offset like this... The F1,...