Lidl Laptop €1499

embraer170

Lidl will have the following laptop from Thursday May 1st:

Targo Visionary AMD Athland XP
Mobile Processor with 1.8GHZ outperforming comporable 2.2GHZ P4 processors.
512MB DDR Ram
Toshiba 60HB hard drive
Mobility Radeon 9000 Graphics Card
LI-ionnen batter
VIA KT333 Chipset
Samsng DVD/CD RW combo drice
Firewire
2x USB 2.0
Infrared
etc.....

€1499

Doesn't seem too bad but luckily enough, I don't need one.

Jeremiah

logistic

looking for 1 meself
whats the web site u came across it on?

embraer170

It isn't on a website, just have the Lidl brochure. There's a whole page on it.

BoB_BoT

you'd want to be quick getting your hands on these. they generally only have a few per store, and don't sell them all in the same stores! so it could only be in embraer170's area that their sellign them.!

Saruman

The laptop is a TargA Visionary... Its German i think and i cant find an obvious website.. only google stuff i find is in german about installing Linux.. an actual model might help. I dont need one but it does sound nice.. once you dont need any support that is.

elexes

anyone got the full secs on this as i would like to see what else they have given on it ?

dont they have a year warrienty on them ? and if somthn happens between now and then you can get a full refund ?

also how did you find out about this ?

Saruman

Someone scan in the thing!

Oh and elexes

just have the Lidl brochure. There's a whole page on it.

Its in the lidl brochure thingy

elexes

cant find one

is it targa or targo

http://www.targa-online.com.hk

wonder which one it is

and is it the xp 1800 or the xp 2200 mobile chips ? the 2200 would be the closest to the 1.8 ghz processor that amd do

irishgeo

yeah someone gives us a picture and i hate to buy it and then find out aldi have a better one a week later.


following some looking on google i think this looks like the model.

http://www.targa.co.uk/cms/targa_2_459.php?produkt_id=213

Saruman

2 year warranty is standard according to the site... looks nice

elexes

ye i know going to have to find one of the adverts . ill find one somehow

damnyanks

Any software with that ?

madmoe

Win XP as standard I think, not too good on software side, I'll be formatting mine from the get go anyways. Do you guys think its a good laptop for that price?

Thanx

elexes

afaik it comes with pinacle software for some reason... prob for the firewire card for editing vid r somthn . but seems classs anyways if i dont get one ill cry

Saruman

How is that Radeon chip for games? How much vid mem?
Is it the sort of thing you could get away with at a Lan party and save you lugging your big server sized case along?

johnnyc

i bought one last year there brill..never had a days trouble with it theres a three year quarantee...The hard drive with the new spec is brilliant 60gb you would'nt find them on some pc at the moment. so if anybody is going to buty do it...theres great accessories flash card,case, and mush more

elexes

shhhh i wants one of these and if no one knows about the offer i can better my chances of getting one

jabberwock

which outlets (in dublin or galway) is this offer going on at??

madmoe

I'm hoping to get my one in Galway, anyone queued up in Galway b4? Are they big, they queue I mean? I'm thinking about going there at 7.30

elexes

afaik every outlet is ment to get 1 r2 of them ...

madmoe

One or two is nothing, geez I must get there early if that is the case!!

elexes

go somwhere that o one knows what laptops are .. stattisticly ( spelling )that would be cork

madmoe

Wish I could go down there but its very unlikely Do u know if the laptops have a serial port? I will need one big time, then again maybe there are USB to serial port converters? Does anyone know anything about these?

Thanx

BigEejit

Originally posted by elexes
go somwhere that o one knows what laptops are .. stattisticly ( spelling )that would be cork

I know its probably a troll by elexes, but:
Where did you find that statistic?, and even if there was such a statistic, wouldn't it be the Lidl in Killarney that is more likely to have a low demanad for laptops (I don't know this, just guessing)

dougal

Is there a list of towns that have Lidl shops in them available anywhere?

jonno

Looks like a cracker of a machine. Anyone know anything about support for it?

That's the only issue I'd be concerned with having to wait weeks for spare parts to be delivered.

scojones

Shannon and Kilarney are two that I know of.

morgana

I just dug out this week's Lidl brochure and scanned the laptop specs to drool over <grin>.
Have a look here: http://www.morganaweb.net/Images/lidl.jpg (169 K)

I bought the Targa tower on offer last October (which they still had about 1 1/2 weeks after) also with the Athlon 2200+, lovely machine, had some problems as the moden was dead but a call to an international freephone number to a call centre in Germany established quickly the need for a replacement modem and the technician called a day later to install it. I can highly recommned it, and their support is excellent and knowledgeable (they don't seem to read just off a script).

Cheers

madmoe

So they had laptops left the next day? I wonder if that will be the case up here? Hope u don't mind me asking but where did you get yours?

Thanx

Oxidise

mm, Sounds good.
Shame i don't have €1,499 in my bank account, i guess i will just have to wait untill the next sale.

/Oxidise Sits and waits in anticipation

woolymammoth

todays independant. page 5.



that is all!

madmoe

What's in today's independent? Won't b able 2 get my hands on one

woolymammoth

the laptop offer from lidl.

it's being advertised in a few other papers aswell.

its a sweeeet deal.

morgana

What I got was a tower not a laptop. And I got it in the Tougher once in Cork. Judging from the interest here alone, I would advise to be there early ... before they open at 9!!! Observe feeding frenzy in action ...

Thorbar

There's obviously huge demand for these lap tops why the hell don't they ship more of them? Aren't they shooting themselves in the foot only having 1 or 2 to sell in each store?

jabberwock

????? Any one get one. ?????

My mate in ballina got one this morning. the shop had five in total.
there had been a few people waiting since 5am. He got the forth laptop, lucky man. He's well happy with it. says it looks great.

Oxidise

i know elexes got one. He said it was good, hopefully he will bring it into work. You listening E?

elexes

i am and on it atm looks nice all but and silver ill get a camera in work 2mor and take a pic r somthn . but looks good there is a good bit of software with it also which i didnt expect just have to see if i can remove the lisence from this machine ( legitly ) to give to another as some of it i will have no use for at all . tis class tho . hdd seems to make some noise maby just for warming up r somthn like that but dose look class will be installing cs tonight onto it and see how it runs on this . nice 15.1 screen . looks fairly classic if ya ask me is a bit loud .

some things i dont like all the ports for it are located on both sides and not at the back
the firewire is the small type one ( is that the 6 pin r 4 hmmm)
i seem to be lacking the ir port . its not mentioned n the bios. so i might have to invest in a blue tooth adaptor for my mobile for it .

60 gig hdd is split in 2 5 gigs going to the resteration software.( ill be getting rid of that soon enough ) seems to be plenty of breathing space for it under the laptop the fan seems to only come on when needed so nice and quiet . keyboard feels nice but different to my old one so that will take some getting use to .

came with 2 expansion slot cards for reading those cards that are comming with camera's/mp3 players .

2 usb 2. ports at back . one monitor and para port also at back . keyboard and s-vid connections to the right side along with the dvd combo drive. just notised no floppy drive ... a well i never used them

right side takes the power and the lan cable along with the expansion slot .

as for the software well the main pieces that ppl will want to know about is ms word with works came with it along with a few other's on a dvd . nero 5.5 , win xp home , panda anti virus software , pinicale version 8.1 ,power dvd , some sound studio software . but all in all it be lovely ...

BoB_BoT

If anybodys interested, they went on sale today in Athlone i think, or so the leaflet thingy said so . Might have some left tomorrow

Oxidise

Sounds like a nice one E, can't wait to have a look at it tomorrow.

lukin

A mate of mine bought one yesterday, we uninstalled the Panda software and put Norton on instead.
Just one thing though: those flash cards, how do you access them? I presume you need some software but there doesn't seem to be any.
Also the HD is only 50 GB. Still plenty big enough but it did say 60 on the specifications.

Saruman

You sure its only 50gb? Your not getting confused by the formatting/partitions are you? I mean obviously you will never get 60gb of space on a 60gb drive.. more like about 58 or possibly less. There might be a hidden partition with backup software. See what fdisk says if you boot off a floppy.

elexes

the hdd is a 60 6 gigs taken up to a resteration file or somthing. well thats what it is calling itsself .

the 2 card readers do not need software they will appear as a 2nd/3/4/5th hdd

just found the ir port on it

Saruman

How did people purchase them? They dont take credit card and i find it impossible to get to a bank... i dont have a laser card, im not sure what the limet on them is even...

So has anyone tried any games on it yet?

elexes

cash cash and cash ...

wolfman

Originally posted by lukin
Just one thing though: those flash cards, how do you access them? I presume you need some software but there doesn't seem to be any.

Lukin

They are only flash card readers or adapters. Just something to plug your cards into. Then, plug the whole thing in and they show up straight away as another drive.

Think I have a few compact flash cards knocking around here somewhere. Might be only 4 or 8 Mb versions but I'll check and let you know.

SouperComputer

how long are you guys getting on the battery generally

elexes

brought it onto a train for about 40 mins played gra3 all the way home . batt after was at about 75% ill have a look tonight