Aldi PC deal...like woah?

PiE

if u got mondays Evening Herald theres an advert for Aldi's PC deals.

Looks good to me, but I'm clueless. What you lot think?

Celt

Well paste it here.

PiE

All the way downstairs.

If...I...could...just raise...my leg....

Gerry

eh run out and buy that pc now. Its £800 sterling with a 17" monitor. Fantastic spec, ok so its not a 1.4 ghz athlon, but theres high quality components in there.

kayos

here is the link to the irish price http://www.aldi-stores.co.uk/IE/specialoffers.asp Gerry is that reall a good PC?? I probaly would buy it if it was.

PiE

I got the impression the monitor came seperate? **** it...just use your current monitor

(Féck is censored??)

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Stephen

The monitor comes optionally for an extra 100 squids.

PiE

Yah, didn't state that in the paper advert though.

Tsk.

Gerry

look at the register link posted for the spec. I still reckon its good value for money. Ask dell or gateway for that EXACT spec and see how much they are.

spod

The register have a story on it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18207.html

Don't suppose anyone knows what the punts price for this thing is?

looks interesting. might call in on my way home this evening.

Kali

from the aldi link above:

1 GHZ PC WITH DVD & CD-RW
Ireland’s Best Value
Intel® Pentium® III 1GHz Processor
128 MB S-DRAM PC 133
Seagate® 40 GB Hard Disk Drive
Liteon® 12x DVD-ROM Drive
Hewlett Packard® 8x4x32 CD-RW Drive
Geforce 2GTS 32MBb Graphics Card With TV Out
4 USB Ports, 2 Front, 2 Rear
Internet Ready
Pre-Installed Software Including Windows ME,1 Worksuite 20012
With Microsoft Word & Many More
Helpline And In-Home Service Provided
All Offers Subject To Availability.
Prices Correct At Time Of Going To Press.
No Cheques Or Credit Cards.
1 OEM Version On CD-ROM Only To Be Used On The Purchased Computer System.
2 OEM Version On DVD-ROM.
*Your 50 Free Hours Must Be Used Within Your First Month Online,
And A Membership Fee Applies After Your First Month Online.
£899.99 £749.79 Excl. VAT Only At Aldi

dvd+cdrw+gts+HD alone is ~550 quid?
so your talking about ~350 then for the processor, mboard, ram and case.

not bad at all, but imo a monitor would make it a bloody damn good deal, as it stands though theyre not going wrong with "irelands best value pc"

Kali

whoa just realised its a PIII and not an athlon as well, even better.

Xithus

OMG Its Internet ready ! lol

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Blade

Says on their site 'available April 10th' under special offers. I think from the register site that it sounds like there was only a few available at that price per store, so it woulda been a queue over night jobby, no? Wouldn't mind that 17" monitor myself.

Blitzkrieger

That's about the best deal I've ever seen without building the damn thing yourself. I'm betting their planning on making a mint on support though. Bunch of clueless ****wits buy a PC at the supermarket then spend £50 quid on a premium rate support line to find out how to use the foot-pedal.

lphchild

Apparently only 6 per store?

lph

Kix

*HIDDEN COSTS ALERT*

I could be reading this wrong, but doesn't it looked tied to an ISP subscription deal?

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kayos

ha ha Kix I see you work for our sister company (well kinda)

yankinlk

holy sheet that is a scam, or at least a poorly worded advertisement.

1. the whole thing looks copied and pasted from somewhere else; ie that somewhere else has all the FINE PRINT.

2. definitely tied to an internet subscription thingy..."*Your 50 Free Hours Must Be Used Within Your First Month Online,
And A Membership Fee Applies After Your First Month Online."

3. no where does it say punts lads, and the site is english, they are prolly calling the north...ireland in this case...maybe?...to vague

4. ah whatdoicare

Bluehair

Picked up the 2nd last one at 1030am this morning and the last one was bought as i was leaving the store(Parnell st, Dublin). They were just flying out the door! There's no way you're gonna get value for money like this even by building yourself. £899? fupin bargain if you ask me... Had a chat with the manager to see when they might get stock in again. Aparently this was something of a one-off and he didn't expect a repeat performance any time soon.

I'm *well* chuffed i got one. Been playing Deus Ex this evening and got no complaints. Will prob pick up B&W this weekend too.

The whole internet thing is just an AOL offer. Usual crap from them but nothing to do with the pc. Use it or bin it (guess where mine is going? :-) )

Some extra ram and an ISDN card and i'm sorted.... cool....

Kix

Glad to see that I was wrong. That does sound like a great deal then. Just taking the cost of some of the major components
together hits that value pretty quickly.

No cheques or credit cards tho. Not much good for your average technophilic debt-monkey [i.e: I'll have to suffer my 600MHz Athlon for a while (*cough*) longer]