Aldi Medion 8820 Dual Core PC - 15th Feb

abomb1969

I was thinking about getting a Mac Mini to sit under the telly but this could be a better option, certainly a better PC.

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LameDuck wrote:

The PC is advertised in this weeks computeractive at £399

As posted at#24..

shown73

Two page spread in todays Aldi in-store leaflet. It would take me days to transcribe it all, but one or two salient points:

Vista home premium
250gb h/drive
1024DDR2 SDRAM
2-in-1 TV tuner, DVB-T and analogue
Bit coy about the graphics though, seems to be 128 only, but fiddled somehow to 384????
Pentium D915, 2.8
DVD burner and 8-channel HD audio
Various bits of software, including, unfortunatel, AOL and Symantec system recovery pre-installed. Anyone else ever tried to get rid of AOL?
Includes remote control for tv, videos, etc

But, it's still £399.99, I'm afraid, so as much as I would like one, I'd never get it through the front door and upstairs without being spotted...!!!

shown73

Oh yes, and an 8 in 1 card reader, and a gadget for connecting an external hard drive. (Medion, of course)

normal

Any mention of what type of motherboard?

Stageshoot

Any mention of what type of motherboard?

All the Aldi Medios have used an MSI board, its not overclocking friendy, the BIOS is a farce, the real BIOS settings being hidden behind a password, this became known on some of the earlier machines, but the later ones have not really produced any joy.

They are good machines for general use, and I swear by them but would not class them as "Enthusiast Machines".

And to be honest if the price is the £399.99 its not the deal it first looked, there are lots of other similar packages at that sort of price,

I for one will keep my money in my pocket and run on my 3 year old 3 Ghz Aldi for a little while longer.

manch235ter

for 399.99 you can build your own on Dell , dual core , windows premium , AND a 19" monitor... ordered one for my little bros easter present last week , the day Vista was released.

theloft

MESH also have some very good offers and they have an excellent build reputation. My 2000 PC with windows ME is still going strong after 7 years, but now Vista is out I think it is time to change.

Here is one spec from Mesh without Monitor: Key Features:

Genuine Windows® Vista Home Basic
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ Processor
with HyperTransport™ Technology
ASUS PCIe Mainboard
Now with 1024MB DDR2 Memory
Now with 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
128MB NVIDIA Geforce 6150 Graphics
Sony 18x Super Format DVD Writer
5.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio
6 USB, 2x Firewire, GB LAN
Classic Warranty-3 Years parts & lab.
Cost is £349.95 delivered.

Or you can have a similar unit with the IntelD915 processor for £399.95.

Several options to add on or improve the spec.

https://www.meshcomputers.com

nickc_3

I'm seriously considering buying this pc...
My current one is patheticly slow and is really starting to annoy me, so this might be the one for me
It will mainly be used for internet browsing and watching videos/tv/music but I wanna be able to use it for gaming as well and this looks like it can handle most games I would wanna play on it, because i'm not a very hardcore gamer.
Not sure if any other similar deals are available so if anyone knows of any...??

Stageshoot

MUCH BETTER DEAL HERE NOW

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=344451

Emachines E4064 £269.99 @ Comet

Intel Dual Core 2.6ghz
Intel Board with 4 SATA & 4 IDE Connectors
1Gb RAM
200Gb HDD
16x DVD R/RW
Full Windows Media Centre with Remote and TV Tuner Board
Vista Free Ugrade

Only 1 Yr Warranty, but is a really nice machine, and a lot better value than the Aldi one I think.