the new Aldi Pc

[etccarmageddon]

on previous deals they've allowed you to place an order on paper if you get there and all the PCs have gone.

[mrmassive]

at that price they can forget it build your own get the parts from the usa except for tower case what you pay over here for you get it at half price over there. I am in the process of building a new pc and the specs of mine compared to aldi will make that look crap example pc 3700 ddr 400mhz 1gig price in usa 81quid over here 70 quid for 512 speaks for itself

[mrmassive]

another good reason is forget the credit card reader all it needs is your kids who know how to online shop yikes not a chance

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by homealone

Thanks Tez

I've got the leaflet for the new one in front of me, it certainly looks spiffy, another difference from the 8080 XL is the DVD writer is an 8x +R/-R by Pioneer.

All the hits I got on googling 9800xxl were mainly German - none at all in the UK ?

Might be worth mentioning, in the same leaflet, on sale the same day, a 17" TFT monitor for £269.99 .

Yeah, it does look quite good

LOL, all I've found are German links too.

Using "translate" in Google wasn't a lot of help. I might try & do an advanced Google search for just English language sites.

Yep, the TFT monitor sounds pretty good. I could do with a new monitor too, but I think I'll have a look around first.

One thing I'm not sure about with TFT monitors is stuff like pixel burn & dead pixels...

Originally Posted by vaiolator

We have still got a Medion from year 2000 thats still working as good as ever, even though the kids now own it! The one occasion I called the helpline, they phoned me back and talked me through whatever it was. I can't vouch for the help you might get now, but I would buy one of these over many bigger brand names.

Cool. Good to know their reliability & support etc is good

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

on previous deals they've allowed you to place an order on paper if you get there and all the PCs have gone.

Yeah, I've read that too. V good

It would be pretty bloody annoying to queue up & then not get one as they've sold out!

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by mrmassive

at that price they can forget it build your own get the parts from the usa except for

Now add import duty and a shed load of postage.

[mrmassive]

importy depends on what the seller sends it as but u might ask nicely for it to be sent not being worth as much as it is .This is of course against ebay rules but cannot be inforced not unless ebay has a employee with every seller in the usa for veryday and of couse theres thousands of them . And as for postage the dollars is about 1.9 dollars for the pound .Its cheaper even with postage .Out of about 40 iteims ive got from the usa about 5 have been clobbered by customs and even with them charge its still cheaper . I can even quote you on memory ddr 400 motherboard cpu dvd writer .If you bought a 8x dvd writer and i said i bought it for under 50 quid you would say where was it nicked from as cheap as $70 .But whe its sent over here it might say on customs invoice worth 20 bucks now are customs going to open every iteim sent into this country and then iteims might be 2 moths before you get them due to the backlog i think not lol

[mrmassive]

if theres a way theres a means

[Bifta]

I think I'd much rather buy stuff from the UK and have a reasonable chance of getting it replaced should it go wrong.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Well, I got one


Got to Aldi at 1/4 to 9 this morning. Was going to try & get there earlier, but overslept, lol.

There was already a queue of around 20 people when I turned up, & most of them bought one of these PCs.

Set-up was easy, build quality seems v good, & it is so much quieter (& faster!) than my crappy old machine.

V impressed so far

And apparently the "Radeon 9800XXL" is a 9800XT (well, that's what the display adaptor properties say).

[Indians]

Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca

Well, I got one

Well done m8, give us a road test in a couple of days, should be good, they usually get a good write up.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Will do m8.

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.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca

Well, I got one


Got to Aldi at 1/4 to 9 this morning. Was going to try & get there earlier, but overslept, lol.

There was already a queue of around 20 people when I turned up, & most of them bought one of these PCs.

Set-up was easy, build quality seems v good, & it is so much quieter (& faster!) than my crappy old machine.

V impressed so far

And apparently the "Radeon 9800XXL" is a 9800XT (well, that's what the display adaptor properties say).

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 )

[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.

Needed to call Gericom 'helpline' (nothing serious, my fault RTFM!!) and they were amazingly helpful. Presume the call is to Germany (but somehow is charged local rate) by the accent of the guy who responded INSTANTLY. Very pleasant guy. Did not call me a twit (which I deserved) and we even had a small chat about whether I 'liked the machine etc etc". Makes a change.

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 )

that's useful to know, danielf, thanks

Have you looked at this

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