Aldi Special Buys on Computer & Accessories Thursday 29th. March

Oracle

A few Aldi computer goodies on offer on the 29th. March: http://aldi.ie/special_buys/

* Medion MD 8822 Multimedia Entertainment PC €850
* 19" TFT LCD Colour Monitor €200
* 320GB External Hard Disk Drive €105
* Powered 7 Port USB Hub €13
* Computer Surround Sound Speakers €38
* Multimedia PC Speakers €10
* Portable Photo Printer €50
* Printer Cartridges €5
* Inkjet Paper €5
* 4 × 6" Glossy Photo Paper €5
* VDU & Screen Wipes €2.80
* PC Fun Club software €5

Prices rounded to the nearest €/c.

south

anyone know if the Surround Sound Speakers are any good?

jamesjoyce

Yeah, my mate bought a set of these a while back. They are decent for the price (maybe a little distorted at very loud volumes) you won't get a set of 5.1 speakers for anything less! Good for casual movie watching and music if you don't want to spend too much money. These set of speakers only take an analogue source, no digital.

standbyme

Hmmm, sounds good for a browse, but they never have HP compatible cartridges on sale for a good price.

Fnz

Anyone get the (2 × 5 watt RMS) speakers?

Are they any good? I've had nothing but bad experience with Tevion products.

Tiesto

wheres the closest aldi to clontarf?

alastair_doom

Tiesto wrote:

wheres the closest aldi to clontarf?

go here http://aldi.ie/ , click 'where to find us' down the end and put in your address. They'll even give a small map

This sound right?:
ALDI Coolock
Coolock Drive
Coolock Dublin 5

2.27 miles distance

Tiesto

alastair_doom wrote:

go here http://aldi.ie/ , click 'where to find us' down the end and put in your address. They'll even give a small map

This sound right?:
ALDI Coolock
Coolock Drive
Coolock Dublin 5

2.27 miles distance

yeah sorry about wasting ur time alastair.
I just thought about going to the site after i posted the question:)
thanks

alastair_doom

Tiesto wrote:

yeah sorry about wasting ur time alastair.

No bother. Its nice to know its there anyway for anyone looking for a special sold out in their usual branch.

Oracle

Those little speakers look good, and a bargain buy for €10: http://aldi.ie/special_buys/product_1312.html
For anyone thinking of buying a Dell computer soon these are a good buy. Dell usually don't include speakers in the price of their PC's; they charge €12 extra and their speakers don't look as stylish.

highdef

I see the PC is selling at the same price as the last time. I bought one last time round, as did one of my friends. It's a fine machine with an amazing array of connections for video and audio. Main prob I've had is that I can't get the 5.1 working from the coax digital output. Has worked only on playback of films on the program called Power DVD but nothing else. Has myself and my friend baffled. Only difference I can see between this PC and the one I got is that the processor has been upped from 1.86GHz to 2.13GHz - quite an increase for no increase in price. But it also comes with Vista installed rather than XP. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is a different matter :rolleyes:

Oracle

The pros and cons of this computer have had a good airing on this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055067389

iMax

south wrote:

anyone know if the Surround Sound Speakers are any good?

I'm selling them on adverts

slayerking

The surround speakers are pretty good, excellent for the price.
If you wana get proper 5.1 channels of sound you'll need a sound card with SPDIF output.
I believe the aldi pc has it.
I had to buy an external soundcard to get them to work on my laptop.

They work great watching dvds.

Redisle

Do these defo have spdif? If they do i may go for them.. my computer already has spdif out.. ive come accross a similar set in aldi before without it.. do these most definetly have it?

Placebo

questions

1- do all usb hubs need external power?

slave1

do all usb hubs need external power?

1.1 hubs don't
2.0 generally do but there are some rechargable ones that take their power off the usb lead

TerrorFirmer

Might get a set of those speakers. Look good....

Aquos76

I have the €10 speakers set up with my Desktop and I find them excellent. As someone else said they are alot more stylish than those from Dell

highdef

They have SPDIF, optical and coaxial, inputs and outputs. 4 digital audio connections there. Also 7.1 analogue outputs. Video wise, there's VGA, HDMI, DVI, composite PAL, S-Video, Component video and a scart output - can't really complain about connections. Also RCA line inputs, composite video and S-video inputs up front and a card reader also built in. Quite a lot of bang for your money!!!

Bummer

Can anyone advise me on buying the "320GB External Hard Disk Drive" Good price put is it good money....Any advice as space is running out on my laptop....

Thanks in Advanced.

Fnz

Bummer wrote:

Can anyone advise me on buying the "320GB External Hard Disk Drive"

You checked out this thread?

Peckerhead seems to like like it... you have to ask yourself whether that's a name you can trust!

Aquos76 wrote:

I have the €10 speakers set up with my Desktop and I find them excellent.

Thanks for the info.

peckerhead

Fnz wrote:

Peckerhead seems to like like it... you have to ask yourself whether that's a name you can trust!

Ahem. You checked out my sig?

Oracle

Update on that Aldi 320Gb External Hard Drive, I just saw a close up picture of this drive and it's got a SATA connector. So in theory if you had a SATA3 connector sticking out of your PC, and connected it to this drive it would transfer data at the SATA3 rate of 3Gbit/sec. That's impressive if it works.

Redisle

Just to let you guys know i bought the 5.1 sound system and it dosent have any optical connections only 5.1 cinch. This suits me fine due to cinch connectors on my pc but just incase anyone was gonna buy one no digital connectors.
Sound quality is amazing by the way!

slayerking

ab_cork wrote:

Just to let you guys know i bought the 5.1 sound system and it dosent have any optical connections only 5.1 cinch. This suits me fine due to cinch connectors on my pc but just incase anyone was gonna buy one no digital connectors.
Sound quality is amazing by the way!

Do they have 3 stereo cinch connections?
one for front nd sub
one for left nd right
and one for the two rears?

TerrorFirmer

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I forgot about this

Redisle

Yes they have 3 stereo cinch, and even include the 3 cables!
Ive just watched King Kong in full 5.1 sound and i must say these speakers have amazing sound quality and just 37 euro!

slayerking

ab_cork wrote:

Yes they have 3 stereo cinch, and even include the 3 cables!
Ive just watched King Kong in full 5.1 sound and i must say these speakers have amazing sound quality and just 37 euro!

yea, I have same speakers about 2 years now still goin strong. I find them great especially when watching a DVD on a big screen. Can't go wrong for the price really.

TerrorFirmer

Pray they still have some left tomorrow. I totally forgot about this, and bought an X-fi the last day only for my speakers to break on almost the same day...

Redisle

HavoK wrote:

Pray they still have some left tomorrow. I totally forgot about this, and bought an X-fi the last day only for my speakers to break on almost the same day...

Id say you have nothing to worry about, there were plenty left when i got mine at about 10 this morning and i have seen these sets last in the shop for a week if not more, i believe many people are put off by the lack of coaxial/optical so they dont sell all that quickly, perfect if you have cinch of course

seven stars

Yup, I was in two Aldi stores (Fonthill and Celbridge) yesterday after 8pm and they had some of them left in both. I wanted to get one of the external HDDs, but apparently these things sell out as soon as the shop opens!

TerrorFirmer

Aldi in Galway don't have them at all - it seems they never had them?? No posters up, no stock, no prices....they don't have any of the stuff advertised in fact apart from the computer

gerryo

HavoK wrote:

Aldi in Galway don't have them at all - it seems they never had them?? No posters up, no stock, no prices....they don't have any of the stuff advertised in fact apart from the computer

They were never put out on plain view!
Walked the placeThursday,(not long after opening) though I'd got the wrong store/week, no stock anywhere. I was looking for the monitor, had to ask at the cash desk, got one brought out, saw the photo printers & HD's brought out from under cash desks when people asked if there was any stock.
Guess they thought it would be fairer to hide the good stuff until people ask .

mcgovern

HavoK wrote:

Pray they still have some left tomorrow. I totally forgot about this, and bought an X-fi the last day only for my speakers to break on almost the same day...

They had plenty in Aldi in Maynooth about 30mins ago. Also a monitor if anyone was looking for one.

TerrorFirmer

gerryo wrote:

They were never put out on plain view!
Walked the placeThursday,(not long after opening) though I'd got the wrong store/week, no stock anywhere. I was looking for the monitor, had to ask at the cash desk, got one brought out, saw the photo printers & HD's brought out from under cash desks when people asked if there was any stock.
Guess they thought it would be fairer to hide the good stuff until people ask .

Ah feck sake...I didn't bother asking them. Probably will actually all be gone by the time I'm in again (Monday). :rolleyes:

gerryo

HavoK wrote:

Ah feck sake...I didn't bother asking them. Probably will actually all be gone by the time I'm in again (Monday). :rolleyes:

Well, the manager (or whoever) said there were "loads in stock", so maybe U might get lucky Monday.

Also, it's a Class II pixel defect product & mine has one stuck red dot (always on), not really noticable when browsing or watching movies, but can be seen on the ol win2K blue desktop & when using shells with a black background.
Since this is within the ISO spec, I really can't complain, however, if the monitors were out on display, & I has time to really read the spec, I might have reconsidered, but had no time at the checkout.

The speakers are lame, very lame, but maybe they always are on these types of monitors.

I'm reasonably happy, but not delighted, so maybe you might not have missed out afterall:)