Details on next Aldi PC - 17th March?

din0saur

Anyone have details yet on the new Aldi PC? It's in their latest flyer but everything is wrapped in brown paper, they say details will follow! It's supposed to go on sale on March 17th...

pickarooney

Is it a laptop or a desktop? The next laptop should be this one, I'd say.

dearg_doom

if it is that laptop, that sounds ****ing sweet!!

for 1200eurons that is the most bargain-tastic computer deal I've ever seen!!

I'm just pissed that I haven't got any spare cash, I got their laptop in September and its flying, no problems/issues whatsoever.

Chalk

they usually "round it off" to 1500 for ireland

din0saur

Looks like I'll have to answer this one myself ;-) ALDI Germany are selling the following PC from March 6th for 959,-

WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA HOME
ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN CENTER
Medion TITANIUM MD 8386

Intel® Pentium® 4 Prozessor 640 mit HT-Technologie
3.2 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB

* DVB-S / DVB-T / Analog TV and FM Stereo Radio
* 1024 MB RAM DDR 400 MHz
* ATI® Radeon X740 XL
* WESTERN DIGITAL® 300 GB Festplattenkapazität 8MB Cache, 7200 U/Min. S-ATA 150 Interface
* MEDION® WLAN 54 MBit/s, IEEE 802.11g 802.11b kompatibel
* PIONEER® 16x Dual Layer, Multi-Standard DVD-/CD-Burner
* LG 16x DVD-ROM
* Dolby Digital
* MEDION® Bluetooth Funkstandard
* Integrierter USB 2.0 Flash-Smart-card reader
* 2x FireWire (IEEE 1394) - 1x Front, 1x Back
* 6x USB 2.0 - 2x Front, 4x Rückseite
* Fast Ethernet 10/100 MBit/s
* MEDION® 56K V.9x PCI Daten Fax Modem

Mohanned

din0saur wrote:

Looks like I'll have to answer this one myself ;-) ALDI Germany are selling the following PC from March 6th for 959,-

WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA HOME
ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN CENTER
Medion TITANIUM MD 8386

Intel® Pentium® 4 Prozessor 640 mit HT-Technologie
3.2 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB

* DVB-S / DVB-T / Analog TV and FM Stereo Radio
* 1024 MB RAM DDR 400 MHz
* ATI® Radeon X740 XL
* WESTERN DIGITAL® 300 GB Festplattenkapazität 8MB Cache, 7200 U/Min. S-ATA 150 Interface
* MEDION® WLAN 54 MBit/s, IEEE 802.11g 802.11b kompatibel
* PIONEER® 16x Dual Layer, Multi-Standard DVD-/CD-Burner
* LG 16x DVD-ROM
* Dolby Digital
* MEDION® Bluetooth Funkstandard
* Integrierter USB 2.0 Flash-Smart-card reader
* 2x FireWire (IEEE 1394) - 1x Front, 1x Back
* 6x USB 2.0 - 2x Front, 4x Rückseite
* Fast Ethernet 10/100 MBit/s
* MEDION® 56K V.9x PCI Daten Fax Modem

Thats brilliant

PADDYPOKER

When you add all the important things like screen, keyboard etc it mounts up!

din0saur

Wireless keyboard & mouse are included as are headset with microphone and remote control.

A mail in coupon is included which can be redeemed for 1x 256MB memory stick, 1x webcam, 1x loudspeaker pair and 1x SCART cable.

There is no guarantee the same PC will go on sale in Ireland and if it does the price will almost certainly be more than €959,- although not that much...

ClonmelMan

Looks like a sweet upgrade to me


Anyone purchased before and maybe do a review of past PC with spec same or near as this one from Aldi?

damnyanks

Whoops

dawballz

pickarooney wrote:

Is it a laptop or a desktop? The next laptop should be this one, I'd say.

What date is that? I dont see any laptop there at all..?

vigos

ClonmelMan wrote:

Looks like a sweet upgrade to me


Anyone purchased before and maybe do a review of past PC with spec same or near as this one from Aldi?

there are alot of threads on the computer forum about ALDI stuff, although most of it doesnt look so good.

[URL=httphttp://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=204012&highlight=medion]Aldi System[/URL]

Anyone any bad experience with ALDI/Medion PC

There are a good few more there if you search for them

Power supply seems to be a problem for a few people who bought them and the after sales service as well.

I wonder how noisey they run as well? This PC looks like exactly what I want but want something that will be quiet as well.

Placebo

im unaware of this company Meldon ? but those experiences above dont look nice.
I got a gericom/advent from pc world (usually the make ALDI sells),, it was fast, good G card etc but soon after a month, the harddrive started to stop [computer would stall a ms every few minutes] , battery was also ****.

i think il may thousand more and get a dell.

vigos

Hi Placebo,

Maybe I was wrong to just put up links to two negative threads about the ALDI/Medion PCs that people have bought in the past so here are a few more positive ones!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89183&highlight=Medion

Aldi Special

also you can read more about the company at Medion

So anyone how has actually bought one before want to comment on their PC?

car

I bought that Ego laptop last November, cost me $1500 yo yo's and this will be my 2nd time bringing it back, the battery is narkered (might as well be a pc its pulged in for enough of the time . and it keeps shutting down for no reason, I cant say its over heating as it could shut down after 10 minutes and its not software related as it shuts down no matter what u are doing, I am actually bring it back this week once I have taken all my crap off it and I will be looking for a full refund because after 2 machines I have lost all hope with them.

I used to recommend them to all my friends and family because of what u get for the money. but for now on I think I will stick to companies that have been around for a while, I know u pay that little bit extra but you get a better service. and not to be told by the gericom help desk to stick a hover over your fans to help to clean out the fans.

carbsy

I have same laptop, great piece of kit and it's in use 12hours+ each day.Sorry to hear you had problems with yours.One thing though, if you use the laptop with the mains plugged in a lot - make sure you remove the battery or it will decay in no time!

bk

Hi I have purchased the last two Aldi Medion PC's.

The one I had before my current one was great, it had a few minor problems, but nothing major to worry about.

My current one (the last Aldi) PC has had some very annoying problems.

1) Noisy, the CPU fan is extremely noisy, it is like having a hoover in your room when you do anything CPU intensive with it (games, DVD encrypting, etc.)

I'm actually going to fit a new fan tonight to try and improve it, I'll report back.

I notice that the new one only has a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor, mine had a 3.4GHz processor, I'd say they have put a slower processor in it to fix then noise/heat problems.

2) The TV card has many artifacts and distortion problems on NTL cable, after weeks of complaining they came out and replaced, but I still have the same problems (looks like it might be software so).

Luckily I still have the TV card off my previous Medion PC and it works perfectly.

What I'm saying is that they are a great PC when they work, but they are a lot of trouble when they don't.

Hope that helps.

carbsy

bk wrote:

I notice that the new one only has a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor, mine had a 3.4GHz processor, I'd say they have put a slower processor in it to fix then noise/heat problems.

If you read the advert properly you would see that it's the new 2MB Cache 3.2Ghz P4.Which provides a huge increase in performance (look at the Dothan Pentium M's with 2MB cache) over the older 1MB chip.

Ooops, forgot the most important bit (pardon the pun).It's 64ibt.

bk

carbsy wrote:

If you read the advert properly you would see that it's the new 2MB Cache 3.2Ghz P4.Which provides a huge increase in performance (look at the Dothan Pentium M's with 2MB cache) over the older 1MB chip.

Ooops, forgot the most important bit (pardon the pun).It's 64ibt.

You are right, I only glanced at it and missed that.

However, to be compeletly picky, according to the benchmarks on anandtech here
the 550 (my 3.4GHz P4) actually beats the 640 (the CPU with this PC) in almost every benchmark.

You see while Dothan has a 2MB chip, it's cache latency has actually increased 17%, this pretty much offsets the advantage of the larger cache, from the Anandtech article:

"Unfortunately, most usage models that are a good fit for the 600 series are server and workstation workloads. Streaming data (using or encoding media), games, and most other consumer applications don't have the lots of big data requirement that can really separate the performance of the 1MB and 2MB parts."

So the extra 200 MHz actually has more impact on most consumer applications then the increased cache size.

However it is nice that it is 64bit, it would be nice to have it for Suse 64bit and once XP 64bit is released.

However personally I'll be waiting for Presler (or the AMD equivalent) the second generation dual core, 64bit processor from Intel due next year. That would make for a nice workstation.

carbsy

Ok Ok, maybe I jumped the gun a little without fully researching the benchmarks but it's a nice machine for the money and well worth it.

BTW, I have a 1.7Gz 2MB Dothan myself and it deffo performs on a par in most tasks with the higher clocked 3.2Gz P4 while running a lot cooler...

litirspam

Can anyone tell me if the monitor and scanner are any good?

din0saur

The new ALDI-PC MEDION Titanium MD8386 with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 640 and HT Technology - €1099.99

http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys/product_111.html

* High performance 3.2GHz-2MB L2 Cache-800 MHz FSB
* 64 bit Technology
* XL-HARD DISC CAPACITY
* Enormous 320 GB
* Hard disc capacity
* XL-MEMORY
* XL-HIGH-END GRAPHICS
* ATI RADEON X740 XL
* XL-BURNER
* XL-PACKAGE
* DVB-T Digital TV TUNER
* Analogue stereo TV & FM Radio Tuner Card
* Bluetooth
* WLAN 54 MBit/s
* 9 in 1 Memory Card Reader
* 6x USB 2.0 2x front, 4x rear
* 2x FireWire IEEE 1394, 1x front, 1x rear
* 8-channel Intel® High Definition Audio
* LAN Network Controller
* 56K V.9x PCI Data/Fax modem
* SOFTWARE XL
* Microsoft Works Suite 2005

Lots more computer gear at http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys/index.html

^whitey^

Ive researched this a bit:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=233947

robbie1876

Can someone tell me, is there an external hard drive on the flyer for the 17th, and what is the capacity and price? I can't see anything on Aldi's site, but I've heard that there is.

Robbie

Placebo

guys,

to buy or not to buy ?>

would you class this as risky ?

Placebo

din0saur wrote:

The new ALDI-PC MEDION Titanium MD8386 with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 640 and HT Technology - €1099.99

http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys/product_111.html

* High performance 3.2GHz-2MB L2 Cache-800 MHz FSB
* 64 bit Technology
* XL-HARD DISC CAPACITY
* Enormous 320 GB
* Hard disc capacity
* XL-MEMORY
* XL-HIGH-END GRAPHICS
* ATI RADEON X740 XL
* XL-BURNER
* XL-PACKAGE
* DVB-T Digital TV TUNER
* Analogue stereo TV & FM Radio Tuner Card
* Bluetooth
* WLAN 54 MBit/s
* 9 in 1 Memory Card Reader
* 6x USB 2.0 2x front, 4x rear
* 2x FireWire IEEE 1394, 1x front, 1x rear
* 8-channel Intel® High Definition Audio
* LAN Network Controller
* 56K V.9x PCI Data/Fax modem
* SOFTWARE XL
* Microsoft Works Suite 2005

Lots more computer gear at http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys/index.html

wtf is XL ?>

litirspam

Extra large I imagine

peckerhead

Boys, boys...

Size isn't everything!
http://img236.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img236&image=stress6tx.jpg

KdjaCL

Assuming Xl memory is 1Gb thats not a bad PC , G card aint great but mid range of latest generation.

Anyone i told to get one of these before loves them , not a problem with and good value for money.

Placebo well worth it tbh, good speed out of the box and the sheer amount of extras make it a sweet deal.



kdjac

litirspam

Hi KdjaC

Is graphics card better than my current card - Radeon XXL?

carbsy

How come it's almost €150 more expensive than the Germany offer?

d22ontour

carbsy wrote:

How come it's almost €150 more expensive than the Germany offer?

I think its the rip off ireland tax

GerardKeating

carbsy wrote:

How come it's almost €150 more expensive than the Germany offer?

Part of this could be explained by different VAT rates ?

slave1

has anyone ever had to

a) bring the earlier Aldi PC back for a refund due to problems, and if so after owning one for how long

b) had to have a service call out under the warranty

tks

or specifically if one is encountering problems after owing this pc for 3 months can they bring it back for a refund ot must they accept repair

Mercury_Tilt

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RicardoSmith

Mercury_Tilt wrote:

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Seriously dude. Can you not read the spec? It's quoted above.....

KdjaCL

litirspam wrote:

Hi KdjaC

Is graphics card better than my current card - Radeon XXL?

Link?

Merc buy this pc if meets your needs from the computer thread, may be investing in new G card for Bf2 goodness if you wanna swing that way but would be fine for 800x600 with the 740XL


kdjac

Placebo

its pretty mid range G card,
only 2 successors after it

x800
x850

hmmmmm, would it run HL2 , x700 !

KdjaCL

Hl2 runs nicely on 9200SE with mega tweaks Here is the Xl its in between the Pro and XT for specs, hard bsatard to find specs for.

http://members.boards.ie/kdjac/ati12.JPG

I telling my bro to get this for BF2 goodness so yeag it will run Hl2 easily.
http://www.computerbase.de/news/hardware/komplettsysteme/2005/maerz/neuer_aldi-pc_p4_640_x740_xl/
Review of sosrts in german tho

kdjac

Mercury_Tilt

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^whitey^

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So no problems returning it then ?
The more I read about the aldi PC's the more I want to build my own rig.

Telgere

any1 have any details on the hard drives that are with the irish spec

Mercury_Tilt

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^whitey^

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I'll be upgrading from a P2, I think i'll settle on building my own rig in the summer. Wont need it till september anyway. If I do build my own rig I'll get exactly what I want. The crap medion support, noisy cases, lack of hardware info and unneseccary stuff like Dual TV Tuners DVB-s DVB-t average ram speed have made up my mind .... I dunno maybe im just too fussy.

markyboy

Komplett is great for the DIY version (you can buy a built PC without an OS) but on the right day from the Dell outlet store you can do very well. Sort by price (ascending). I bought my most recent PC from Dell and a 19" monitor from Komplett = best of both worlds!

Blub2k4

car wrote:

the battery is narkered (might as well be a pc its pulged in for enough of the time

You do remove the battery when it is sitting on your desk plugged in right? If you dont you cant really Blame Aldi for you misusing the hardware.

colonelx

Hi, sorry if this goes a little OT but I was just wondering about other peoples' experiences when trying to purchase offers like this pc bundle.

The shop opens @ 9am, around what time would someone want to start queuing at ??

^whitey^

About 8 for the PC if you want to be sure

colonelx

cool, thanks for that ^whitey^ , no sleep in for me on Paddy's day

Placebo

so whos getting this ? i dunno wether to get it or not/

dearg_doom

Seems like a very good deal to me.

If you can't be arsed building yourself and have 1.1k it's grand,
even if you did BYO you'd be hard pressed to do it on budget without OCing.

It seems to have a lot of multi-media gubbins, ie TV/radio capture; it has a nice GFX card, a good CPU(64bit too) it's basically grand, and if your upgrading from some P3/2 it'll seem like greased lightning!(Thats what my laptop seemed like anyway:))

Now NONE of these components are cutting edge, but they are up there, definitely way above average.

If I had the cash and needed a desktop, I'd probably get it.

Also you get a good warrenty and can always return it if you need to, Aldi are good like that.

I got their laptop(and Ext. HD) last year and the thing is deadly, I do Audio/video/gaming/wifi/network/design shenanigans on it all the time!

There has been one problem; the trackpad died about a month after I got it.

One quick call to their (Gericom's)customer service and I was told it was a driver issue, given the URL of the update and ten minutes later all's well!

I'm very happy with my experience with them, and while I've heard a bit about bad service/computers, I can count them all on my left hand. And when you consider that they sell about a quarter of a million of each computer when they do them, that's not too shabby.