Medion Laptop - £350 - Thoughts ?

DundlerMiflen

Hi all,

Bought a laptop from Aldi this morning, for my 14 y/o daughter's xmas present. Have 30 days to take back, and as was limited availability, and last one in store, thought it was worth taking a chance.

She'll use it for typical teenager activities such as facebook/youtube/twitter etc...not into gaming, as well as for GCSE course work/home work etc. Apart from using in various rooms in the house, won't be getting moved around much.

We've had a Medion desktop for past couple of years, and had to use their service desk to replace the power button on the front, and found them to be absolutely fine. As such, the 3 year warranty on the laptop, was particularly attractive.

Anyway, here are the main features & any comments would be appreciated;

AMD Athlon™ X2 P320 Processor (2.10 GHz)
Operating system: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
ATI PowerXpress™ technology
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 DirectX® 11 graphics processor with 512 MB memory and digital HDMI audio/video output
3 GB DD3 SDRAM
Large 320 GB S-ATA high-performance hard drive with lightning-fast access to data and applications
Illuminated MultiTOUCH pad
Digital HDMI audio/video out
High-definition audio with 2 speakers – Dolby® Advanced Audio certified1
Latest wireless LAN 802.11 n-standard technology with up to 300 Mbit/s, IEEE 802.11 b/g compatible2
8x multi-standard DVD/CD burner with DVD-RAM and Dual Layer support3
Ergonomic keyboard with numeric keypad for fast, comfortable data input
Network controller Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000 Mbit/s.)
6-cell Li-ion high-performance battery for extended use

Browntoa

its perfect for that , just get it out of the box now and set ip up to check its all ok rather than leave it to xmas morning and find out it was dead in the box

Donnie

Link to machine here. Sold for £499.99 in August. So a worthwhile discount.

I suspect there will be a few more people heading to their nearest ALDI.