Topic: Aldi Medion

[Rodders]

As you say Gill, it has a lower specification - much lower - and therefore probably best avoided, in my opinion.

You might also consider Novatech, whom I've dealt with on and off for well over ten years now.  Their prices are very hard to beat and service second to none.  Definitely worth a shot.

Good luck!   

[Sandra]

The Aldi is very good value for money Gill.
Anyone on the Aldi/Medion forum who is ready for a new pc are hoping that they will manage to get hold of one before they sell out. I recommended that one to a friend who was complaining about how slow his pc was on sunday evening.
The problem with Aldi is that for the last couple of years they dont tend to get that many pcs in stock per store. If you really want one I would suggest getting there at least an hour before the store opens, wrap up warm and take a flask of a hot drink or some brandy with you as they will sell out within 10 minutes of the stores opening.

[GillE]

I'm very tempted by the Aldi Medion, but the weather is against me.  As much as I need a new computer before my present machine fails, I don't anticipate being able to drive to my nearest Aldi tomorrow.

[Sandra]

Some people on the Aldi/Medion forum are expecting a better spec pc out around march Gill, so if you cant get out for this one the next one should be even better, possibly with an i7 cpu 
I think it will be more expensive though and unless you needed something really specialised then the one tomorrow looks like a great deal, especially with the 3 year guarantee that you dont get if you buy a Medion PC from anywhere else for some reason.

[Glenn]

This is available tomorrow http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2827_12578.htm

[Simon]

Shame they don't do online shopping.

[sam]

and they will be gone within 10 minutes.

[Glenn]

Yesterday, Reading Aldi, had 5 PC's on special offer from their last PC sale, I believe that they are these http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_7349.htm They were priced at £299.99

[Simon]

I guess it depends if people can get there to buy them.

[Rodders]

There's just been an interesting development in the story of my Medion - in as much as I now have two.

In addition to the one I mention above there's also one of these these, after I went all whimmy in Tesco yesterday afternoon.  Despite the relatively puny HD, it does have a Q8300 CPU and four GB RAM, which represents a bit of an improvement on the existing box.  Oh, and it was heavily discounted (£277) because it was end of range, ex-display and I had a few Clubcard vouchers to fritter.

The Motherboards appear to be pretty much identical (MS-7366 v2.2), so if there's a kind Sandra listening, could you possibly please advise me whether I can do a straight swap of all the gubbins (PSU, drives, graphics, sound card, etc.) from the old box to the new one, and still expect it to work, once I've disabled the on-board display and sound from the BIOS.  Both machines are running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Thanks, in anticipation,

[Sandra]

I should think you would be OK with that Rod, providing the older PSU is as good or better than the newer one and has the required extra connectors for the GFX card and the 4 or 8 pin  one to the mobo for the CPU.

I didnt realise that you had a medion ( or now 2 ) Rod. May be worth you joining up here and asking on there :

http://www.medionsupport.com/phpbb2/index.php

I think you have to join to view the posts and need 5 posts before the filter allows most words.

[Rodders]

Thanks, Sandra!  On the strength of that, I'm inclined to take a flyer and start swapping bits over from box-to-box then.  My main worry was that Windows 7 might not recognise the new CPU/config for licence purposes and then refuse to play.  At least I've now got someone to blame if it all goes the way of the pear.

The PSU shouldn't present any problems , as it's a newish 800w Hiper jobbie that I paid an obscene amount of money locally for, after the one I bought on eBay from a gentleman in Bradford was DOA and its replacement blew up very noisily after only a week.  It smelled of curry anyway.

With any luck, I might also end up with a free copy of Windows 7 (on the Medion install disk from the new machine), provided I can successfully reactivate the copy of Vista I upgraded from and plonk it back onto the old machine.  First things first though, eh?

I'll hit the Medion forum after it all ends in tears.

Yours eternally gratefully,


Mr. Confident of Bournemouth 

[Rik]

Is that your ring you're talking about, Rod? 

[Simon]

Do we really want to discuss Rod's ring?   

[Rik]

I was just checking.