Anybody buy the Aldi Lappi

Fungtank · 12-05-2005 10:50am #1

Because i did. Not too shabby neither. Its a good bit lighter then i guestimated, which is a good thing.

Has anyone tried it out with some hadcore gaming?

Stephen · 12-05-2005 12:24pm

Yep - it plays Half-Life 2/CS Source in the screen's native resolution (1280x800) beautifully. I get 60-90 fps. nvidia driver settings are all at their defaults.

Also, the inclusion of a laptop bag was a bonus - there was no mention of it on the Aldi site, I am pleasantly surprised

Sneaky_Russian · 12-05-2005 1:53pm

ALDI is great......

toiletduck · 12-05-2005 2:39pm

i trust them for cheap beer but id be a little wary of buying a laptop off them but them specs are impressive for that price

CivilServant · 12-05-2005 3:06pm

I bought one and i'm very happy with it. It looks a lot less chunky in real life and feel lighter than some of the other heavyweights. Nice big screen, have yet to test out any games. I have a feeling there cud be something wrong with the cd drive though. World of warcraft is taking ages to install on it

kensutz · 12-05-2005 4:37pm

Just home from Cork with mine and about to test it out.

DingChavez · 12-05-2005 4:40pm

anyone know how to use the remote?

kensutz · 12-05-2005 5:16pm

Anyone know how to use everything lol

Stephen · 12-05-2005 5:29pm

Haven't tried the remote yet, but I did mess around with the TV card. Don't think I'll be carrying that around with me - I'll keep it at home. The reception on the aerial is brutal anyway

Fungtank · 12-05-2005 5:40pm

Just ran it through Aquamark 'as is'. Scored 40,444
GFX 5,163
Cpu 9,328

jayneemac · 12-05-2005 10:02pm

how is the build quality?
is it a cystal brite screen?
ta

kensutz · 12-05-2005 10:09pm

Everything is solid and sweet.

johnniekipper · 13-05-2005 12:33pm

I bought it and am also very happy with it. I like the TV card, I know the reception from the arial is not great , but its perfectly fine for watching a bit of TV while waiting for your plane or train.

Has anyone noticed the scrren is lovely and bright when the mains is connected , but goes quite dull when using the batteries. Is this normal ?

I tried the demo of UT2004 on it and it looks acceptable. I have a 256 ATI in my desktop for gaming so I've been a bit spoiled by that.

istep · 13-05-2005 1:07pm

Wireless network in my hoyse or office is not being seen by my aldi "supersonic"

Anyone any ideas??

johnniekipper · 13-05-2005 1:11pm

Right click the white shell shaped icon in your system tray and set it to Wireless on rather than off

istep · 13-05-2005 1:52pm

Will try that ... Thanks a million ( or thanks for nuthin if it doesn't work !!! )

Will let u know later

Cheers

istep · 13-05-2005 2:58pm

Lovely ... thanks johnny

Stephen · 13-05-2005 3:02pm

Johnniekipper: It dims to screen to reduce the power drawn from the battery. You can control the brightness using fn+F4 and F5

Istep - also check the wireless button beside the power button on the laptop - you should have a green light blinking there from time to time if its turned on.

DingChavez · 13-05-2005 3:49pm

Anyone know what settings will get u the full 4hours?

johnniekipper · 13-05-2005 3:56pm

Stephen wrote:

Johnniekipper: It dims to screen to reduce the power drawn from the battery. You can control the brightness using fn+F4 and F5

Istep - also check the wireless button beside the power button on the laptop - you should have a green light blinking there from time to time if its turned on.

Thanks Stephen. How come theres no bloody decent documentation with this thing !

Istep, Steven is right , the button beside the power button turns the wireless on and off. A red x will be on the shell in the system tray when off.

istep · 13-05-2005 4:10pm

Yeah ... thanks Steven for that had figured out the hardware button beside the power button and everything is sweet .... man the spec is good

cosgrove80 · 13-05-2005 10:24pm

Ah crap. Was playing around with the latop and the cd drive wont open! :mad:

I can hear the motor running and all relevant LEDs flash but nothing. Ejecting manually or from windows dosen't help.

There isn't a laptop safegaurd thing I'm not aware of is there? Please?

Well that was a crap trip to Aldi. My Wireless router is a non-starter also (other people have found this too).

At least the weather has picked up recently

DingChavez · 13-05-2005 10:28pm

cosgrove80 wrote:

Ah crap. Was playing around with the latop and the cd drive wont open! :mad:

I can hear the motor running and all relevant LEDs flash but nothing. Ejecting manually or from windows dosen't help.

There isn't a laptop safegaurd thing I'm not aware of is there? Please?

Well that was a crap trip to Aldi. My Wireless router is a non-starter also (other people have found this too).

At least the weather has picked up recently

You do know you have to insert CDs like floppys...right?

kensutz · 13-05-2005 10:28pm

yeah like a car stereo pmsl

kensutz · 13-05-2005 10:31pm

and the router i cant figure out

Stephen · 13-05-2005 11:04pm

cosgrove80 wrote:

Ah crap. Was playing around with the latop and the cd drive wont open! :mad:

tee hee hee.

Ooh, I never realised that the DVD drive is in fact a DVD-RAM. 'Course, I've never actually seen DVD-RAM media in shops so I'll be sticking with +/-R for now

Btw, if anyone is having problems using the USB bluetooth device provided with the laptop, you might have to go into device manager and change the driver used from the "bluetonium" one that it seems to pick up by default to the broadcom one.

cosgrove80 · 13-05-2005 11:48pm

DingChavez wrote:

You do know you have to insert CDs like floppys...right?

Yes. Yes I do. Now.

In my defence I did have the lights off in the room.

This is very embarrasing. I can't even delete my post because I've been quoted.

Thank you. I now off to learn about this interweb that all the kids are talking about these days.

kensutz · 14-05-2005 12:35am

cosgrove i fell for that twice but soon figured out what was wrong

sinjin_smythe · 14-05-2005 12:46am

Anyone got a pic and a spec on the laptop ??

Stephen · 14-05-2005 2:29am

here's a crappy camera phone pic: http://feckoff.net/wp-content/photos/Picture_4_.jpg

Spec:
Pentium-M (centrino) 1.73GHz
1GB 533MHz DDR2 RAM
128MB nVidia GeForce Go 6600 (nice) with tv out
100gb seagate IDE hard disk
15.4" WXGA screen
DVD-RAM/+/-R/RW drive (slot loading)
TV card
USB bluetooth dongle
4 USB 2.0 ports
1 firewire
5 in 1 card reader
802.11 a/b/g wifi
gigabit ethernet
56k modem

They also throw in a laptop bag, which is nice.

No floppy drive, but if that still bothers you, you're stuck in the past

Oh, and they also throw in a decent software bundle: Windows XP home SP2, MS Works (including Word from office XP), MS Autoroute, MS money, MS Encarta 2005 and some version of MS flight simulator which I haven't bothered looking at. There's also some crappy ms photo retouching software which I promptly dumped and replaced with the GIMP.

JohnnyMobile · 14-05-2005 11:47am

hi Ive used one of these machiens and I have to admit for the money it cant be beaten.

I was concerned a little about the warranty. Always try stick to the "ensure there is a good warranty with a laptop" motto.

What sort of warranty is with them?

Anybody buy the Aldi Lappi

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