LIDL Medion PC - Athlon 64 3700 - £399

IvanOpinion

bergy2 wrote:

I must say I am anti Medion

I bought a new 800 quid machine and the monitor needed replacing straight off

Then just outside the 2 years it died totally - now I have built a number of machines so got a good idea and after a lot of bother found the processor 2.4 Intel had fried and the hard drive and when i got the XP disc out for some fun rebooting it had a big scratch on it and the code to re set up was incorrect with the disc etc etc

I am guessnig you were just unlucky. I use a Medion (bought through PC World) and have never had a single days problem (touch wood, rub the rabbit foot, kiss the black cat, avoid the ladder). The internal parts in most PCs come from similar sources with most 'brands' purely being assembly jobs for off-the-shelf products (hence why just about anybody can assemble a PC from bits ... no different)

Ivan.

Gameplayers

anyone checked their local lidl store today?? any luck??

Patr100

Gameplayers wrote:

anyone checked their local lidl store today?? any luck??

ALDI, not LIDL have this from 2nd march
http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_946.html

and I pressed your thanks button by mistake.

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Gameplayers

Patr100 wrote:

ALDI, not LIDL have this from 2nd march
http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_946.html

and I pressed your thanks button by mistake.

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but that is a completely different system, much lower spec...

Patr100

Gameplayers wrote:

but that is a completely different system, much lower spec...

I know but Lidl are not advertising any Medion systems they sell Targa as already mentioned.

jbar1610

found this link

http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_946.html

not sure if this is the one

Gameplayers

Patr100 wrote:

I know but Lidl are not advertising any Medion systems they sell Targa as already mentioned.

yes we know that... Lidl is selling the Targa, which is the pc that i am interested to buy, however i need to know if this is just a one store deal or is it available else where also with that price.

jbar1610

theres this for a lap-top

http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_947.html

i think its a wee bit expense!

Gameplayers

jbar1610 wrote:

found this link

http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_946.html

not sure if this is the one

no it isn't the same, this is a much lower spec pc, compared to the Targa one in Lidl

bergy2

I would still stay well clear as its really unlikely for a decent processor to die in a pc

I guess my expectations were high seeing as I paid out and didn't want the bother of building again -n i expect a graphics and sound card to go within 3 years but not the main bits really and haven't had that with any I have built - I have built a new one now so well happy with that