Aldi PC

the_syco

Family Dell machine is on it's last legs, so looking at the newest offering from Aldi.

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/2827_9846.htm

AMD Phenom™ X4 9650 Quad Core Processor
ATI Radeon™ HD4550 DirectX® 10.1 graphic card with 512 MB dedicated memory onboard and integrated HDMI-/DVI-interface
640 GB hard disk for more than 120,000 songs or photos (average 4 MB per photo or music title)
4 GB 4096 MB DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM with 800 MHz 64 Bit1
Upgrade Licence free upgrade5 from Windows Vista® to Windows 7
High Speed Wireless Networking High speed Wireless LAN 802.11 n-Draft with up to 300 Mbit/s. 802.11 b/g compatible2
eSATA for connecting external SATA devices
AUDIO 8 Channel High-Definition Sound3
DVD/CD burner play and create DVDs and CDs4
LAN Network Controller Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mbit/s. on board
Software included (OEM versions pre-installed and/or on CD/DVD and recovery DVD or CD)

• Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 32 Bit
• Microsoft® Works 9.0
• Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2007 Trial Edition7
• Cyberlink Power2Go 6
• Corel® Draw Essentials 3
• Corel® MediaOne™
• BullGuard Internet Security8
• System recovery powered by Symantec: www.symantec.com

The free upgrade to Windows7 is nice, as is the 4GB's of RAM, and the quad core. Wondering is there any reason not to get this?

Amalgam

I'd love to know what motherboard they use. See if there's extra SATA ports and room for extra cards etc. Didn't notice it was Quad before.

Amalgam

the_syco, have a gander, breaks the parts down.

http://www.tomshardware.com/de/Medion-Akoya-E6300-D-MD8328,news-243159.html

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The motherboard is an: ASRock A770DE

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A770DE

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air

I think I spotted in the small print on the poster that the Windows upgrade is an additional €15 at the time, could be wrong though.
Edit: Yeah it actually says it on the website too in the footnotes, €19.95 material handling charge for the upgrade