Lidl Laptop

davehey79

From 4th December - not priced yet, but just so you're clued-in in time... saw it in an advert in PC Lives' December issue. What do clued in ppl think of spec possible price?

biko

Aldi too, for Sunday
http://www.aldi.ie/
Medion MD 97900 Multimedia Widescreen Notebook
€759.99

plonk

That looks really good but I suppose it depends on the price

Saruman

Looks rubbish to me...
its an underpowered laptop from what i can see. Its not good enough for games anyway.
Im talking about the Aldi one... the Lidl one looks great though.

plonk

Wahts so rubbish about it?

mad m

Well the graphics card on the Lidl one is much better than the Aldi one and Lidl laptop has bigger HD also the Lcd on the Lidl one is 17inch and Aldi is only 15inch.

plonk

I thought he meant the lidl one was rubbish

Saruman

plonk wrote:

I thought he meant the lidl one was rubbish

Eh i did say i was talking about the Aldi one

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.lidl.it/it/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20061123.p.Notebook_17

It will be more here

[edit] and it's a different laptop [/edit]

Notebook 17”

* Tecnologia mobile AMD Turion 64 - prestazione AMD 64 bit concepita per la mobilità
* 24 mesi di garanzia, servizio pick up incluso Two Years Guarantee
* Tecnologia HyperTransportTM
* Compatibilità Wireless con tutti gli standard e tutte le soluzioni Bluetooth wireless attualmente disponibili per collegarsi ovunque
* Tecnologia 3DNow!TM Professional e istruzioni SSE2 e SSE3
* PowerGraphics integrata ATI Radeon Xpress 200
* TARGA Quick Media-accesso diretto alle funzioni multimediali premendo un tasto
* Masterizzatore DVD Double Layer
* Ergonomica: tastiera con tastierino numerico separato
* Card Reader 5 in 1
* Dolby Digital Surround Sound
* Display brillante 17” WXGA
* Risoluzione 1.440 x 900 Pixel 16:10 Wide-Screen formato cinema
* Alla confezione

899.00*

biko

Sorry about the confusion folks. Should have started a separate thread.

TerrorFirmer

Whats the story here - somebody has a picture of a great gaming orientated laptop, yet the specs on the website list the gpu as a Radeon X200, a pretty weak integrated card that will not run most new games at all?

Just noticed that's from an Italian website. thats not the same laptop. If the one with the Go7600 arrives here it's got to be pretty expensive though with that kind of hardware, not exactly for the budget user trying to find a cheap deal.

The Aldi machine is pretty poor though alright. Not a bargin at all by any means.

Capt'n Midnight

HavoK wrote:

Whats the story here - somebody has a picture of a great gaming orientated laptop, yet the specs on the website list the gpu as a Radeon X200, a pretty weak integrated card that will not run most new games at all?

Just noticed that's from an Italian website. thats not the same laptop. If the one with the Go7600 arrives here it's got to be pretty expensive though with that kind of hardware, not exactly for the budget user trying to find a cheap deal.

Dang thought it was the same machine

If you wern't into games it'd be a nice box for d'ol dvd's like , and wordprocessing -

But everything else seems to be the same (though warranty is only 24 months) , any chance it's an upgradeable video card - or have they stripped it down ??

melekalikimaka

2 gig max ram just seems a bit limiting to me with vista round the corner

inode

i have vista RC 2 on my laptop with 1.25GB of ram and am havin no probs at all. totally smooth

col16

Anyone have an idea of the price for the Lidl laptop on the 4th Dec yet ????

BrenC

I wouldn't be worried about screen size, I'd prefer a 15" screen to a 17"screen, I find them very big and bulky.

Do-more

col16 wrote:

Anyone have an idea of the price for the Lidl laptop on the 4th Dec yet ????

Going on there previous offerings something like €1350+ (at a wild guess!)

acquiescefc

1600 yoyos...

http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20061204.p.TargaTraveller1776x2

cyrus the virus

Check out the Dell Inspiron 1501 from 579 euro. You don't get the softwere but its twice as powerful as the Aldi one.

craichoe

Who wants gay Vista anyway ........

subway

vista will easily run on that,
i have it running on 1 gig of ram with an intel intergrated graphics card.
unfortunately youll be paying for it, as theres no mention of a free vista upgrade in the ad.

lidl latop looks decent but the size of it would put me off.

3 years warranty is good tho.

Stark

cyrus the virus wrote:

Check out the Dell Inspiron 1501 from 579 euro. You don't get the softwere but its twice as powerful as the Aldi one.

It says "from 579". As soon as you choose any reasonable config, the price goes way up I tend to find.

Tom Dunne

cyrus the virus wrote:

Check out the Dell Inspiron 1501 from 579 euro. You don't get the softwere but its twice as powerful as the Aldi one.

I agree the Lidl laptop appears spectacularly over priced, but you are not comparing like-with-like.

The Lidl model has a bigger screen, for starters, and it has a TV-tuner card with FM radio, among other things. Certainly not worth the price differential, though.

Oracle

The price is way too much, I don't know what Lidl are thinking, they're computer products get more expensive with every new offer. A while ago they were offering a desktop PC at much more than the current market prices. I wonder if demand is greater because it's available in the shop- so no credit card is needed or delivery required. If so people are paying a high price for those "advantages".

Tom Dunne

Oracle wrote:

I wonder if demand is greater because it's available in the shop- so no credit card is needed or delivery required. If so people are paying a high price for those "advantages".

I think it is more down to consumer ignorance - "well if it costs that much, it must be good".

Silly, silly, silly.

subway

tom dunne wrote:

I think it is more down to consumer ignorance - "well if it costs that much, it must be good".

Silly, silly, silly.

and the inverse -
"well if lidl are selling it, then it must be cheap"