New Medion PC offer from Aldi UK

[SeeMoreDigital]

I see Aldi will be selling a new Medion MD 8820 base unit on Thursday 15th of February for £399.00...

The preliminary specification looks pretty good: -

Intel Pentium D915 Dual Core 2.8GHz CPU
Win Vista Home Premium
1024 MB RAM
250GB HDD
Multi-format LG DVD Burner
NVidia GeForce 7300 SE Graphics
DVB-T and Analogue TV card
3-year Warranty
Basic Keyboard and Scroll Mouse
Funky looking Media remote control
Various other software

EDIT: A bit more info (taken from this source (http://www.aldi-sued.de/de/html/offers/1213_2514.htm)): -
Extrem leise
Laufruhig und flüsterleise: Durch hoch effiziente Heatpipe-Kühlertechnologie und extrem leisen Lüftern ist der MEDION MD 8820 ein Vorbild an Ruhe.

MEDION Datenhafen
Für externe USB-Festplatte HDDrive2go,
HDDrive2go UltraSpeed im USB-Modus.
Externe Festplatten sind nicht im Lieferumfang enthalten.

Grafikkarte NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7300 SE
128 MB DDR2 Memory mit DVI-I, D-Sub VGA und
TV-out unterstützt bis zu 384 MB Grafikspeicher
dank NVIDIA® TurboCache™ Technologie.1

Riesiger Arbeitsspeicher
1024 MB DDR2 SDRAM mit 533 MHz 64 Bit,
1 Slot frei zur Aufrüstung.

Gigantische Festplatte
250 GB SATA Festplatte 8 MB Cache,
superschnelle 7200 U/Min.

Die ganze Welt des Fernsehens
TV-Tuner für Analog / Digital TV (DVB-T).2

Multiformat CD/DVD Brenner
Unterstützt alle gängigen CD/DVD Standards,
inklusive Dual Layer DVD-R und DVD+R.

8 in 1 Kartenleser:4

IBM Micro Drive
Compact Flash Card
Memory Stick
Memory Stick Pro
Multimedia Card
Smart Media Card
XD-Card
SD-Card

Anschlüsse Frontseite:

2 x USB
1 x Mikrofon
1 x Kopfhörer

Anschlüsse Rückseite:

2 x PS/2
1 x D-Sub Com-Port
1 x D-Sub Parallel Port
4 x USB 2.0
1 x RJ-45 LAN
1 x Front Line Out
1 x Side Surround Line Out
1 x Center/Subwoofer Line Out
1 x Back Surround Line Out
1 x Line In
1 x Mikrofon
1 x Antennen-Eingang Analog/DVB-T
1 x S-Video In
1 x Composite Video In

Inklusive Zubehör:

Funkfernbedienung
PS/2 Tastatur
PS/2 Maus

Umfangreiches Software-Paket
OEM Versionen vorinstalliert und/oder auf CD/DVD bzw. Recovery DVD

Windows Vista™ Home Premium
mit neuer MediaCenter Edition Oberfläche
(32Bit Version vorinstalliert, 64Bit Version zusätzlich im Lieferumfang)

MEDION Home Cinema Suite
PowerDirector 5 SE,
PowerProducer 3,
PowerDVD 7,
MediaShow

nero Essentials
Nero Burning ROM 7 Essentials3,
Nero Recode 2SE Essentials3,
Nero Express Essentials3,
Nero Vision Express Essentials3

Microsoft® Works 8.5

WISO Mein Geld 2007

T-Online

MEDION Fotos auf CD powered by MAGIX
Wohin mit all den Fotos? Hunderte von Urlaubs-, Personen- und Landschaftsaufnahmen sowie Bilder aus dem Internet. Jetzt einfach per DVD-Player und Fernseher neu erleben! Als sensationelle Foto-Show komplett auf CD gebrannt.

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Any thoughts.....

[kurt]

don't buy from Aldi unless you don't want to change nothing. I got one 3 years ago (P4, 2ghz, 512 MB RAM, 500€) and since the mainboard chrashed it was a pain in the *** to find a new one which fit into this PC. Everything is OEM and needs "special" versions (BIOS for example). Their support is a complete mess --> barely version updates on their site...

Therefore it is a PC for beginners, which seems to be nice in price - but don't expect good support.....

[SeeMoreDigital]

don't buy from Aldi unless you don't want to change nothing. I got one 3 years ago (P4, 2ghz, 512 MB RAM, 500€) and since the mainboard chrashed it was a pain in the *** to find a new one which fit into this PC. Everything is OEM and needs "special" versions (BIOS for example). Their support is a complete mess --> barely version updates on their site...

Therefore it is a PC for beginners, which seems to be nice in price - but don't expect good support.....How odd...

I bought a Medion from PC World in December 2002.... It's been on 24/7 virtually every day since then and has proved most reliable.

The only component that's failed has been the PSU. But this only occurred after a brown-out followed by a power-cut...


Cheers

[Inventive Software]

Looks good for £400, probably best as a HTPC though.

[kurt]

ok, maybe I was just out of luck. Anyway I won't by anything which looks like a PC from Aldi. ;)

And as for the HTPC quality: Medion PCs are often quite noisy.

[BigDid]

... The only component that's failed has been the PSU. But this only occurred after a brown-out followed by a power-cut...
Hi,

Yep, had same kind of problems. Now all my equipments are on power surge/lightning ramps AND after a power cut I switch off the ramp, wait for the power to be back and stabilized (voltmeter or just a lamp) before turning back on :)

Did

[communist]

Intel Pentium D915 Dual Core 2.8GHz CPU
...
NVidia GeForce 7300 SE Graphics

Dont buy it... its a Pentium D.. if you're in the market for a new PC and dont need all that extra (IMHO) junk then go for Core2Duo or an X2 - way speedier and consume less energy for the performance they offer.

I have an Aldi computer from 1998 and it serves me very well (only thing that ever broke was the CD-ROM) but as others have stated they're mostly good for beginners.

Ever since then I build my own machines - may not be cheaper in the end, BUT the finished machines are 100% what I want. No special motherboards or other odd components (TV-card anyone?), no unneeded components (super killer graphics adapter in an office PC?) etc. :)
And you can pretty much recycle all components into new computers.. try doing that with those special versions ;)