That is an attractive little machine. I love the lines. Tasty.

Mmmm. Now I wonder if my decision to hold off on buying a netbook wasn’t rash.

Yes, that’s my understanding as well. I thought Chippy had posted something on it but I’m not sure.

Aldi in the UK tend to throw offers on for a few days and then they are gone. They had it on this last Sunday at £279, same as the Advent 4211 in PC World, and today the offer is not on their website.

The Advent badged MSI Wind is selling like crazy here. PC World, the UK’s largest highstreet PC retailer (I believe… please correct me if I am wrong) are struggling to keep up with demand. Where I bought mine had just had a delivery of ten more units after selling out at the weekend. At 12pm they had all ten in stock, I walked away expecting to be fine to come back later and I was… but they were down to seven units with more being sold as I signed the dotted line. Chances are they are out of stock again now or very close.

That’s on a Monday when shops seem to be quieter after the weekend rush.

Medion jumped into the netbook fray earlier this year. As far as I know, they sold the Akoya Mini E1210 at Aldi in parts of Europe in early July.

http://www.slashgear.com/medion-akoya-mini-e1210-unboxed-0112340.php

http://www.golem.de/0806/60687.html

The Medion AKOYA Mini is a rebadged MSI Wind but with a few big differences. Only one ram slot upgradable to 2gb, draft-N wifi card and no bluetooth.

They are on sale in the UK in the Aldi this weekend and can also be found in Sainsbury’s.

I nearly bought one but decided that the Advent 4211, a true MSI Wind clone from what I understand, was a better buy. So I got that yesterday, put an extra stick of ram in, put in my original Macbook 120gb hard drive, swapped in my Samsung Q1 wifi card and installed Mac OSX.

And it works really nicely. The Q1 wifi card was needed as the bundled one does not work with OSX. However it did work when I put it back in the Q1, so both machines are happy and smiling!