Aldi or Dell

hightara

:rotfl:

The Dell badged monitor, a 21" CRT with Trinitron tube is still in front of me (Die, you swine, die so I can buy a big LCD)

rofl......................know what your saying bernie.........:rotfl:

samhale

jellytot wrote: »

Hi there guys i am considering buying a laptop soon as well. the pc i am on the now is 7 years old and it is a medion , i haven't really had any problems with it over the years, i have been looking at the medion laptop that is on sale in aldis from thursday, i have been trying to find out if it has a webcam built in and if so what kind of spec,i was looking on a foreign website translated into english and says it has but not sure if it might just be slightly different,if the person that was on here that is using a medion akoya tell me if theirs has a webcam in it, that would be great cheers:D

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_7660.htm

matt83uk

As a developer I say Dell is a safe bet however I used to have a HP at client site and that was fine/well built machine too. Small negative my recent one from Dell outlet wasn't as well assemblied as it should of been - wrong sizes screws used on fitting card reader - repair my self in 5mins. On the whole though I leave my PC 24hrs a day and its never had an issue - its run fast and silent (Dell PCs are always quiet) - it just works and well priced. I don't need much support though so I can't vouch for customer service etc..

Can't understand why you'd need 4GB RAM on a laptop, or rather why you would pay the premium for such at this stage (yes times will change), by time 4GB ram is required/norm you'll be trading it in anyway. On 32 bit Vista you'll only expose 3.5GB anyway. I laugh when I hear friendly upgrading from 1gb to 2gb RAM because they think it makes it goes faster when their total memory usage including all caching rarely exceed half a gig.

samhale

matt83uk wrote: »

(Dell PCs are always quiet)

Quiet? Dells a notorious for using cheap components, including fans, so in general they're noisy. Some specifically use dampening, and in fairness it's very good.

matt83uk wrote: »

On 32 bit Vista you'll only expose 3.5GB anyway. I laugh when I hear friendly upgrading from 1gb to 2gb RAM because they think it makes it goes faster when their total memory usage including all caching rarely exceed half a gig.

At 2gb Vista runs its best IMO. My laptop has 3, suitable for video editing.
Even if all you do is surf the internet, I recommend 2 GB, and when you say it's rarely more than half a gig, I'm using 1 GB ram on Premium and Firefox now....