Advent is one of the few companies to manufacture a series of all-in-one PCs, a division of the market that has seen a striking raise in impetus over the previous couple of years thanks mostly to the preface of the “net-top”; efficiently these are desktop computers based on the entrails of netbooks. One of the company's most recent is the AIO-101, which looks the same to the AIO-100 we reviewed former this year, but in its place of using Intel's Atom processor it utilize AMD power.

Presently similar to its AIO-1xx siblings, the AIO-101 is intended in two parts - the bottom component as well as the screen - which are attached by a sole, glossy chrome, flexible support which isn't the strongest in the globe so some care needs to be taken with it. It can hoist or lower the display by something like 8cm while the display itself can be twisted up to 90 degrees upright. Both the bottom component as well as the 18.4-inch screen looks the part, with pleasant rounded edge designs along with the now apparently standard gloss piano black finish.

AMD-powered all-in-ones are rarer than AMD standard desktop PCs, so it makes a pleasant alteration to be capable to have a look at one. The AIO-101 makes use of a low voltage Athlon X2 3250e which is a 65nm dual core chip clocked at 1.55GHz along with a TDP of just 22W. Backed by 4GB of 800MHz DDR2 memory, all of this means that the AIO-101 has a bit more sound than its Atom-powered, while at the similar time being practically as power well-organized.

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While the AIO-100 had to build with a 160GB hard disk, the AIO-101 arrive with twice as much storage space with a 320GB drive; multipurpose, as it also comes with a fixed AVerMedia analogue / DV-T TV tuner as well as you'll require a lot of space for all those recorded programmes.

It has a superior aspect list than, declare MSI's Wind Top, as in adding up to the TV tuner there are four USB ports, a DVI out port, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, a DVD burner along with a 3-in-1 card reader. It also arrives with Windows Vista Home Premium installed.

The 18.4-inch screen with its 1,680 by 945-pixel local resolution is extremely superior but it does undergo from having a shiny coating, which makes it a pain to make use of in bright lighting situation due to all the reflections. The monitor is power-driven by an ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics chip which isn't going to electrify with its gaming ability but has sufficient grunt to playback HD movies.