Aldi media Notebook £729.99 (merged)

talkshop

rao4844 wrote:

Why is it rubbish? What aspect of it is rubbish? Please could you possibly give an alternative Notebook roughly at the same price. (Not a Laptop)

It's a tiny screen, poor graphics card, and no mention of any warranty.

This is a low-spec machine which is being bundled with stuff that will never be used.

Much better laptop PC's are available elsewhere for same or less money.

mute

kmkmkm wrote:

It's superb for the money. Medion PC's are superb. You'll probably get a 3 year warranty as well. 12.1" screens are the best if you are genuinely going to be travelling with a laptop/Notebook. Have you tried humphing a 17" screen laptop about??? They're about as protable as a washing machine!

you can get £400 laptops with 14 or 15 inch screens and nearly exactly the same specifications. A laptop with "AOL pre-installed" being a key-selling point is an instant warning sign for me. I'd rather have one without - saves me wasting 1 minute of my life uninstalling software for their over-priced service.

kmkmkm

mute wrote:

you can get £400 laptops with 14 or 15 inch screens and nearly exactly the same specifications. A laptop with "AOL pre-installed" being a key-selling point is an instant warning sign for me. I'd rather have one without - saves me wasting 1 minute of my life uninstalling software for their over-priced service.

I don't think you understand the point. The 12.1" high quality screen is one of the reasons why it is more expensive. Small notebooks are far more portable than 15" laptops. My work if full of IBM notebooks that cost £1200 because nobody wants to carry the bulky 15" laptop models that cost much less. Notebooks are truly portable, laptops are not. If you travel a lot and use a notebook, you would never ever go back to a laptop. There is a huge difference in portability. Not just the screen size, but also the weight and thickness.

It is a very small light notebook, that's why it is £700. Big heavy laptops are cheaper because the are far easier to make as the manufacturer has far more room to store the components.

The graphics card is perfectly acceptable for a £700 'notebook'.

Laptops and notebooks are very different types of PC's.

rao4844

talkshop wrote:

It's a tiny screen, poor graphics card, and no mention of any warranty.

This is a low-spec machine which is being bundled with stuff that will never be used.

Much better laptop PC's are available elsewhere for same or less money.

What bit of "Not a Laptop" did you not understand!
This is a NOTEBOOK with a 3 year warranty.

Now, will you please try to point me in the direction of an equivalent NOTEBOOK for roughly the same price.

scoobie

And it will be worth about 300 pounds in a year as it probably isn't Vista compatible

The_Negotiator

Let me just say, this ISN'T a normal Medion laptop, it is a MSI laptop and I am typing on one right now (just lower specification). I have a top of the range centrino laptop with PCI-E and 100gb HDD etc. but which one am I using right now? You guessed it...

Any questions at all about this laptop go ahead and ask, although mine is a lower specification I can answer a fair few relevants questions

Oh and I honestly don't know whether it is worth the money for this one, but do not be afraid that the quality of the laptop is poor, it's not.

intel

The_Negotiator wrote:

Let me just say, this ISN'T a normal Medion laptop, it is a MSI laptop and I am typing on one right now (just lower specification). I have a top of the range centrino laptop with PCI-E and 100gb HDD etc. but which one am I using right now? You guessed it...

Any questions at all about this laptop go ahead and ask, although mine is a lower specification I can answer a fair few relevants questions

Oh and I honestly don't know whether it is worth the money for this one, but do not be afraid that the quality of the laptop is poor, it's not.

My Medion MID2020 Lap has never ever ever let me down in Two years
to be on Jan the 14th of this year a Brilliant Machine....... :T

The_Negotiator

Got the S250 from medionshop about 2 months ago for £330 tr3mor. Brilliant little machine, very light weight, sony x-brite style screen, 2 batteries. Stuck in an additional 256mb and it's brilliant. Also since it has the celeron-M processor, it has no less performance than the equivalent P-M (since afterall the celeron-M is a dothan afterall, just without the throttling ability).

The ONLY reason why I bought it was since it has a tiny 12.1" widescreen, is the same size as an A4 pad and is brilliant for uni and trains etc. Keyboard is a little flimsy and touchpad buttons hard and loud but still a neat little machine.

The megabook MSI series (which this Medion laptop is) was designed to compete with the ibook 12.1".

The build quality is fantastic and very simplistic, access is available to everything in site very easily for upgrade and the cooling is good with little active cooling required.

You may be able to get 15.4" widescreen laptops with X, Y and Z for less but can you stuff it in your back and pull it out to watch a DIVX within seconds? Not easily.

dfarry

Apologies if anyone has already posted the link to the MSI website... but yes it is the 270

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/notebook/nb/pro_nb_selling.php?UID=608

I'm still trying to decide if this is or isn't a good deal... I wouldn't mind a new laptop but £729 is still alot of cash.

dfarry

I'm on a really slow internet connection at the moment but I want tocheck out how easy for example it is to replace the HDD.

I currently have a 5 year old IBM thinkpad...as you can imagine it is creaking a bit now but does the job.

Also another important point for me would be if when connected to my LCD tv it can output at the native resolution of 1366x768 so that the TV doesn't rescale anything.