Aldi Medion Laptop - Should I Buy It?

MortgageMamma

Last year I made the stupid mistake of buying a laptop when I didnt have a clue what I was doing. I bought an Acer Travel Mate 2420, basically because it was cheap. I'm having real problems with it as I am a heavy user and I need to multi task due to my job. It is very slow all the time, keeps freezing and crashing. I have tried all the remedial stuff like disk clean ups, defrags, deleting old programs etc and I've just come to the conclusion its unfit for purpose

So I have decided to take the plunge and buy a new one, but still I know nothing. I need something fast, with a quality processor and a good amount of memory and something with good battery life for when I am at clients houses.

I have spotted one in aldi but the spec is so Alien to me I don't know whether to buy it. Would someone be kind enough to have a look and tell me if its worth the money and will do what I want it to?

www.aldi.co.uk

Thanks in advance

MortgageMamma

albertross_2

If your existing laptop has less than 257MB of ram, then that may be your issue. https://www.crucial.com/uk

Restoring the laptop software to factory state might also be of benefit. You shouldn't need to replace it after a year.

There are several other threads about the aldi laptop, try a search for aldi or medion.

Personally I'd get a Dell, same spec, but cheaper.

https://www.dmxdimension.com

MortgageMamma

Can you tell me how i find out how much RAM I have got?

MortgageMamma

Found it. I have 1.50 MHZ intel celeron (r) M processor
248MB RAM
40 g hard drive split into 2

Is this bad or OK?

ckerrd

You can currently get a DELL for under £500 including delivery which has a 120 gig hard drive and 2 meg of ram which is pretty impressive.

Intel Core Dual Core Processor T2080 (1.73 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista Business - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Intel® Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Up to 256MB shared graphics memory
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including software
6 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (53 Whr)
56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-PCI Card (for Dual-Core Processors)
Microsoft® Works 8.0 - English

albertross_2

I suspect it has something to do with the slowness, adding another 256MB from crucial will probably make a vast improvement to the speed, and is much cheaper than a new PC.. run the scanner on the crucial website.

Cricri

I agree, 1.5GHz CPU and 40GB hard drive are way enough. If you're going to trash it, I'll come and dispose of it for you
Although you could get around with a trimmed down WinXP with 256MB, I'd suggest a RAM upgrade as well. Thing is, if you have 2x128MB at this time, you'll have to get rid of both sticks and get 2 new ones

MortgageMamma

Can anyone comment on the performance of the processor on the aldi laptop?

AndyWallace

Lisa I have an Acer Travelmate with a lower spec than yours (3 years old).

It works completely fine for what you 'need' it for so I'd first suggest running the following programs:

1. Stinger.exe
2. Adaware
3. Spybot Search & Destroy.

I'd also recommend you just keep Office and Trigold on it if you can. The laptop should be used as a tool while on the road. You have a PC as well don't you?

payless

For the progarms I guess you are running, what should cope with a added 256 memory

The Aldi one looks good , some might say a bit overloaded with extras for business use .

Personally I would stick to Compaq, Dell or Sony , and check quoted battery life , then half it.

Consider a spare battery, or a car invertor ( allows charging whilst on teh road)

uklad2k

ckerrd wrote: »

You can currently get a DELL for under £500 including delivery which has a 120 gig hard drive and 2 meg of ram which is pretty impressive.

Intel Core Dual Core Processor T2080 (1.73 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista Business - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Intel® Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Up to 256MB shared graphics memory
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including software
6 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (53 Whr)
56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-PCI Card (for Dual-Core Processors)
Microsoft® Works 8.0 - English

have you got a link for this?