Medion PC at ALDI -3rd August - Is It Any Good?

AdamW

ALDI have a new medion PC in on thursday, its at £400 but is it value for money?

Intel Pentium D820 Dual Core Processor 2.8GHz
Two processor cores work within the same processor to increase the performance of your PC. Dual core technology means that several demanding applications can be run at the same time allowing your computer to think as fast as you can multitask.

200GB Hard Disk
Superfast 7,200rpm, Serial ATA interface.

1024MB Memory
DDR2 SDRAM/533MHz. Both memory slots occupied.

Multi-Standard Dual Layer DVD/CD Writer1
Max. Write Speed: 8 × DVD+R dual layer, 4 × DVD-R dual layer, 16 × DVD+R, 16 × DVD-R, 8 × DVD+RW, 6 × DVD-RW, 5 × DVD-RAM, 48 × CD-R, 24 × CD-RW. Max. Read Speed: 16 × DVD-ROM, 48 × CD-ROM.

DVB-T2/Analogue TV
Hybrid DVB-T/Analogue TV Tuner Card with RF remote control.

S3 Graphics UnichromeTM PRO IGP (on board)
Upgradable through 8 × AGP slot.

6 Channel Audio3
Dolby Digital© For Home Theatre Sound4.

Integrated 8-in-1 USB 2.0 Card Reader
Reads from and writes to all common Flash cards5.

Connectivity
6 × USB 2.0 Ports - 2 × Front, 4 × Rear.
V.90 PCI data/fax modem, modem connection cable included.
Network controller on board. Fast Ethernet 10/100MBit/s.

Plus…

Huge software package included
3 year manufacturer's warranty
Full support available from the customer helpline

huddsta

...As far as I can tell yes. I was always concerned about PCs from supermarkety places but thats a lot of PC for the money.

AdamW

I already have a computer from medion and ive had no problems (except an extremely loud fan) so i know they are reliable, and aldi are good at refunds if it breaks.

I forgot to mention in the OP that it doesnt come with a monitor

fox2319

Not too bad except for the graphics (onboard and only AGP for upgrade) and lack of a monitor. A couple of months back, you could get a Dell 5150 with same processor, RAM, slightly smaller HDD, no TV card or DVD-RW for around the same price. That one came with a 19" TFT though and a PCI-E card for upgrading the graphics to the most modern cards.

No Dell offers on at the mo but they always seem to come every few months so if you're in no rush...

Cheers

Jeff
(PS - downside with Dell is the automaton-like customer service. Probably the same with them all though)

fossman

I bought a Medion PC from Aldi over 3 years ago and have never had any problems with it, I just used my old monitor with it.

The fan in the PC is quite loud although on the box it said it had a silent fan.

TeamMCS

Hey all, I'd say that was a *good* pc, but for the money you may be better looking at alternative special offers from Dell etc..

Not to mentions some medion/advent/gericom pcs have some notorious problems.

Bottom line: its a reasonable deal but dont be too short sighted

Browntoa

not sure if it will cope with the latest games with only an onborad graphics but it is supplied with an 8x AGP slot so its easy to upgrade

Dual core is a big plus over other sheap PC's around

fox2319

Someone else managed to get a decent dual core Dell for not-a-lot and posted the address on this thread: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=235302

Hope that helps

Jeff

Johntea

£400 is not worth it, The Dell 5150 almost always has a special offer or two on it with the 19" TFT which can fetch around £125 - £175 of your purchase price (Around £500) back.

Also the Dell is more future proof due to the PCI Express slots.

But I would wait a few more months since the new Intel processors will be in mainstream production shortly and therefore Dell will want rid of the old technology as quickly as possible.

MORPH3US

The Philips refurb that was around on here a few weeks back was the same price (or about £35 less after cashback and coupons) but had dedicated PCI-e graphics and other stuff, but of course it was a refurb!

M

AdamW

Thanks for your help, i already have a monitor so that isnt an issue. what do other people think? is it good value?