the new Aldi Pc

[danielf]

Originally Posted by homealone

that's useful to know, danielf, thanks

Have you looked at this

http://download.medion.de/medion/uni...dom/index.html

Apparently, there is a German site that claims to have benchmarks for the Radeon 9800 XXL which show it be comparable to the Radeon 9800 Pro.

The Radeon 9800XXL scores 6075 points in 3DMark03 and 17143 points in 3DMark 200 on a 3GHz Pentium 4-system

Does that make sense?

Originally Posted by snodvan

I bought A Gericom 3.05 P4 laptop from Aldi about a month ago. 60G HD, 15" TFT (1400x1050 - nice) CD/DVD R/RW and loads of ports, wireless card etc. Price of £1K included 2 years warranty AND all risks insurance. Seems good. Nice & quiet. Negatives ... battery lasts just about 2.25 hrs with that sort of power. Not a lot but then I am rarely far from a power source. Not the lightest of machines (understatement) esp if you consider the mains adaptor is like half a brick. <snip>

wow - does it really run 'native' at 1400x1050, 1280 horizontal does for me & I have a 37cm (14.5") horizontal width, yours must be less than 33cm (13"), what's it like on brightness & refresh?

Originally Posted by danielf

Apparently, there is a German site that claims to have benchmarks for the Radeon 9800 XXL which show it be comparable to the Radeon 9800 Pro.

The Radeon 9800XXL scores 6075 points in 3DMark03 and 17143 points in 3DMark 200 on a 3GHz Pentium 4-system

Does that make sense?

perfect sense

if it reports an XT variant of the Radeon 9800 series to the system, it may even be better than a 'pro'

http://apps.ati.com/ATIcompare/result.asp

Are the Medions from Aldi the same manufacturer as sold by PC World? I have a Medion laptop, and recently bought an Advent laptop as well. They use the same power supply.

[snodvan]

Originally Posted by homealone

wow - does it really run 'native' at 1400x1050, 1280 horizontal does for me & I have a 37cm (14.5") horizontal width, yours must be less than 33cm (13"), what's it like on brightness & refresh?

The 1400x1050 is "as it comes" from the box and I have not changed anything. Actual screen width is 30.5 cm (12") height 23cm (9") and diagonal 38cm (15").

Brightness - well all I can say is that I turn the brightness down from the default setting. Refresh? Dunno how to judge that. I use the machine for downloading from video camera and then editing etc. There does not seem to be any problem.

Originally Posted by snodvan

The 1400x1050 is "as it comes" from the box and I have not changed anything. Actual screen width is 30.5 cm (12") height 23cm (9") and diagonal 38cm (15").

Brightness - well all I can say is that I turn the brightness down from the default setting. Refresh? Dunno how to judge that. I use the machine for downloading from video camera and then editing etc. There does not seem to be any problem.

- I mainly use mine for browsing the net & watching tv via an ATI 9800se AIW card, mine is way behind an XT 'monster', for games, but the TV, CD, Mpeg, Avi, DVD playback is great. - Interesting that in the Aldi machine, the TV etc appears to be done by a 3rd party card?

[ntluser]

Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar

Are the Medions from Aldi the same manufacturer as sold by PC World? I have a Medion laptop, and recently bought an Advent laptop as well. They use the same power supply.

There's quite a thriving thread on the WhatLaptop site on problems with Median Laptops. The main problem appears to be overheating.Toys 'R Us are selling Median laptops for £999..q uite a good spec too..if only they worked properly. Staples I believe are also selling them too.

Just hope Aldi's Median PCs are OK. It will be very interesting to hear from buyers.

Originally Posted by ntluser

There's quite a thriving thread on the WhatLaptop site on problems with Median Laptops. The main problem appears to be overheating.Toys 'R Us are selling Median laptops for £999..q uite a good spec too..if only they worked properly. Staples I believe are also selling them too.

Just hope Aldi's Median PCs are OK. It will be very interesting to hear from buyers.

The Medion runs quite hot, but its OK as long as you use a flat surface so it has an airgap underneath.
My Advent with the same power supply as the Medion only runs hot when re-charging, as its a Centrino Mobile chip it tends to run cooler anyway. Its battery life is more than double the Medion.

Originally Posted by Proppinupthebar

The Medion runs quite hot, but its OK as long as you use a flat surface so it has an airgap underneath.
My Advent with the same power supply as the Medion only runs hot when re-charging, as its a Centrino Mobile chip it tends to run cooler anyway. Its battery life is more than double the Medion.

aargh - sorry prop, ignore my comments, mines a desktop, your point about the gap underneath is so true, though

[John Smiths]

Originally Posted by homealone

aargh - sorry prop, ignore my comments, mines a desktop, your point about the gap underneath is so true, though

Yeah, i saw an advert for the Aldi laptop a while ago in the paper - and it looked the same as a laptop i bought from novatech, v. similar spec too. And yeah the temperature is fine as long as it has sufficient air circulation beneath it...

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by homealone

Nice one Tez - I went in our Aldi this evening ( not to buy a pc ) and all the computers & scanners had sold out, just a few tft monitors & wireless keyboards/mice, left.

I'm not surprised. The one near me was a bit of a madhouse, & that was straight after opening.

I was tempted to get the TFT monitor too, but couldn't really find any info about it so decided not to.

Originally Posted by danielf

If you still need a translation of the German site, post a link, and I'll see what I can do. I can't promise anything but I do speak a fair bit of German (don't know how I'll get along on the techno babble though )

Cheers

I've already tried using Google's "translate" function though. A bit odd, but fairly understandable, lol.

Originally Posted by danielf

Apparently, there is a German site that claims to have benchmarks for the Radeon 9800 XXL which show it be comparable to the Radeon 9800 Pro.

The Radeon 9800XXL scores 6075 points in 3DMark03 and 17143 points in 3DMark 200 on a 3GHz Pentium 4-system

Does that make sense?

Yeah, guess so.

One of the German links I got Google to translate said the "9800 XL" was somewhere between a 9800 & a 9800 Pro, while another said that the "9800 XXL" (the one on the new Aldi PC I bought) was somewhere between the 9800 Pro & XT.

Originally Posted by homealone

Interesting that in the Aldi machine, the TV etc appears to be done by a 3rd party card?

Yeah, the manual says it's a seperate Medion branded "combi card", with TV/FM tuner plus 56k modem on one card.

Originally Posted by ntluser

Just hope Aldi's Median PCs are OK. It will be very interesting to hear from buyers.

Well, it's v good so far, IMO. Still need to try out all the features though.