-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Medion Computers
- From: "Andy" <barneystorm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:13:09 +0100
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From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Medion Computers
> > Thank you!
> > It is a 2.8 GHZ Pentium 4
> > 512 DDR 120 GB hard drive
> > 64 mb nividia video card
> > nVidea G Force 4 something 400 graphics card -
> > with a 17" flat screen monitor -
> > Thinking seriously about it - $1300.00
> > Cris
>
>
> That's about £800 in our money and is pretty similar to what they sell for
> here..I read the description on the last one they sold and it was all
really
> cutting edge, quality parts. good sound and video cards, plus smart card
> readers, front USB and audio controls, CD-DVD writer. Windows XP, software
> bundle...etc..etc..
>
> The supermarket chain they sell through is called Aldi, which is a German
> chain, and Medion is a German company. They usually sell the tower and
> monitor separately, along with printers, reasoning that many people will
be
> buying a machine like this to replace a PC, rather than as a first
purchase.
> They usually advertise about 2 weeks before they are putting them on sale
in
> their stores and the shop stock sells out within a couple of hours. I
> believe that the medion brand is also now appearing in PC World (a large
> national computer outlet).
>
> Check what sort of back up service you'd get, if it looks ok, I think
you'd
> be very happy with your purchase!
>
> Andy
>
> Thanks Andy! We have Aldi's here! I always sort of joke about how they've
> started to sell computers and things like that. Here, it is a cheap way to
buy
> grocery's - all their own brand - some are very good and some are so so. I
would
> never have thought to trust a computer purchased from Aldi's!! Unless it
is a
> totally different Aldi's here than there. But now that you mention it, I
recall
> that being the brand they have in the advertisements.
Sounds about the same here..virtually all own brand stuff, and most of it is
at least as good as you'd pay loads more for elsewhere-They just don't do a
wide enough range to do a full weeks shopping though (Their chocolate is
just fantastic!!!!)
>
> One of my concerns is buying it all in one box - and not knowing
everything
> about it - and not really knowing what sort of back up service there would
be -
> That's still a lot of money for me - (especially if I'm getting ripped
off!) but
> it seems the comparable Dell is over $1800.00. I looked up Computer
Active, and
> there one complaint was no floppy drive. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty
sure
> this model has a floppy drive. I need a floppy drive - or a bay to put one
into
> it. It had ports on the front and extra usb ports. I saw the small card
readers
> also - my camera is that new format - X-D picture card. I don't think
there is a
> slot for that one!! LOL I also don't know if it has capabilities to say -
add a
> 2nd hard drive - or extra ram - Also - if it wasn't in a box, I would
consider
> XP PRO, instead of XPHome - I have home now - but still....it doesn't
sound
> shabby!!
> Cris
I think the last version didn't have a floppy drive, and it does seem to be
a thing that is happening more and more now-the space is being used for
something else-the reasoning being-why do you need them when you have a
CD-writer..Must admit, I haven't used a floppy now for two years and I've
not put them in any machine I've built up over the last year either. A few
people have said 'I need a floppy', and when you ask why, they don't have
anything that can't be backed up easily onto a CD-R or RW. The only real
reason I can think is if you want to move information to a REALLY old PC
that has no CD drive.
You should be able to find out what the MoBo is-especially if they've got
one of them on working display-it will be a modern one (hence the DDR RAM)
and a quality one for sure and so adding more RAM should not be an issue,
nor should adding an extra hard drive, though I'd check that by doing so
would not invalidate your warranty.
As I said before, the service I got when the Medion DVD player I have broke
down, the customer service really was excellent-now, you may be used to that
over there but here 'Customer' and 'Service' do not usually go hand in
hand!! Put it this way, every time Aldi have them in, and I go shopping in
there with my better half, I spend half an hour rubbing myself against it
and making strange whimpering sounds...though my 'He followed me home, can
we keep him' always falls on deaf ears!!!! Although I like buying the bits
and building my own, if I broke the price of the components down on the
Medion PC's, I doubt I could build one for the same price.
Cheers
Andy
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