Re: Hey FN!!! - Re: Aldi offer from 4th August
- From: "Rabbit" <Rabbit_is@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:35:12 +0100
"pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Rabbit" <Rabbit_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> How about refreshing my memory and telling me what it doesn't have
>> compared to the last one please.
>
> I can't really do that, cos I dunno what came with the previous ALDI
> Medion offer (the 799 one) - I have the one before that (the 699 one).
I thought the bells and whistles were the same on both the £799 and the £699
one, just the basics were different like memory, HD etc.
>
> There are several bits that this latest one (the 499 one) doesn't have...
> But I reckon those bits wouldn't be missed (or needed) by most people.
>
> & (from what you've said in the past) I don't reckon there's anything
> missing from it that you would really need (or want).
>
> It doesn't seem to have any WiFi?
I don't need that at all. I don't think I'll be carrying it about to find
hotspots :-)
> But it does come with a DVB (Digital) TV Tuner Card & also an Analogue
> TV/FM Radio Tuner thingy.
> & it comes with PVR (Personal Video Recorder) Software & Remote Control,
> so you can use it like a TV/Radio & Video Recorder - but you've already
> said that you don't want to use any of that.
Doubt I'd use them, too much faffing about for a start to get it connected
to my TV cable, I don't have your standard TV cable and what's there is
already running with a splitter, but I might change my mind if it's there.
>
> It's got a Multi Card Reader (for Camera type Memory Cards), as well
> as 6 USB Ports & 2 Firewire Ports & a built-in LAN (Ethernet) NIC thing.
>
> It doesn't seem to have a SIM Card Reader though?
OK I've lived this long without a SIM reader so I can manage that :-)
>
> The Graphics Card is an NVidia GeForce 256MB [*1] PCI eXpress which
> seems OK - far better than anything you need for any of what you use
> your PC for - you don't play all the latest Games on your PC, do you?
Just Google Earth which I presume will still jbex Ok or even better. Unless
it's on the list of graphics cards which don't jbex I'll need to check that
out.This graphics card is NVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400. Can I presume the
Medion one is way better ?
>
> [*1]
> Even though, in the small Print at the bottom of that Page, it says
> that the "TurboCache (TM) Technology" means that it's actually only(?!)
> a 128MB Graphics Card & the other 128MB is Dynamically shared with the
> System Memory, as & when it's needed.
Isn't that a bad idea ? Or is my rememberer wrong ? I know the laptop has a
shared graphics card and I actually lose some *real* memory because of that.
Or is that a completely different thing?
>
>>... Would you ( or any of the other techies ) recommend it or pass
>> any comment.
>
> I would recommend it (subject to a few provisos).
> Bear in mind that it doesn't have a Monitor with it (but you have recently
> bought a TFT LCD Monitor, haven't you? - So that doesn't
> really matter)
>
> But there *are* actually Machines around for 499 that *do* include
> a Monitor, though they aren't as well specified in other areas.
You're right I don't want a monitor, I don't even want a keyboard and mouse,
this one is only 7 months old and I'm used to it.
>
>>... Is 512 DDR enough for instance,
>
> It's plenty enough for most people.
> & if you wanted more, you can easily get more RAM - that Machine will take
> up to 2 GB of RAM, if you wanted it.
I can't mix SD ram can I ? Well OK I can mix it but it will only run at the
the lowest value, is that right?
>
>>... is DDR really twice as fast or is it all sales talk?
>
> DDR RAM *isn't* "twice as fast" - "twice as fast" as what, anyway?
SD like I have on here.
>
> DDR stands for "Double Data Rate" - & that doesn't mean that the
> whole thing is twice as fast (as anything) it just means that in most
> circumstances, it's faster (& more efficient) than stuff which isn't DDR.
I have 768mb SDR on here, so am I actually gaining much memory ?
>
>>... Is there any way to check that this one comes with a full XP disk ?
>> I can hardly ask the security guy in ALDI :-)
>
> You could try having a look on the Medion Site?
>
> The previous ALDI Medion Offers have had Links to the fuller details
> on the Medion Website, though (with just a quick look just now)
> I couldn't see any Info about this one on the Medion Website.
I always thought these Medions were specific to ALDI.
>
> But anyway, I have yet to see any Medion PC that *doesn't* come with
> a proper, (OEM) WinXP Install CD.
>
> & They *also* come with a "Factory Recovery" CD
>
> & (in addition to that) they come with a (large!) Hard Disk, that
> is already Partitioned & which has the "Factory Recovery" Image Files
> on it.
>
> & cos the Hard Disk is already Partitioned, that means that you can
> use the (built-in) WinXP Disk Management Utility to chop & change
> & Re-Arrange the Partitions, if you want to. (The main obstacle for people
> Partitioning a System is usually cos they only start off with
> only one, single Partition - & it's the *first* step, from one to more
> than one Partion, that is the most problematical.
>
> Besides, you can also (cos it comes with a Factory Recovery thing) use the
> WinXP Install CD to wipe the Disk & Partitions & create new Partitions as
> well - & then you can use the "Factory Recovery" thing
> to put the original Operating System (& all the Applications) back,
> onto one of the New Partitions, then yo ucan Install (any number of) extra
> Installations, if you want to.
Is my ticket to the bike sheds still valid for hand holding while I do that.
Or are you thinking of leaving the country ???:-)
>
>> Any reason to hold off and see if they have the soupa doopa ones again?
>
> You can *always* "hold off" buying a PC!!!
> There will *always* be a better &/or Cheaper PC available!!!
Well I was quite chuffed that this one was six months old before it became
out of date, my first one was out of date before it was delivered :-( I'm
kind of losing faith in this one and what I want is a replacement which is
obviously more suited to BB, i.e. it jbexes faster to take advantage of
things like Google Earth. I can't see me now taking up fancy PC games, I
can't even handle fancy console games now which require about twenty fingers
to use the controls. Come back the Speccy, Mega Drive and SNES :-)
>
> But if you keep "holding off", even when there's a good value one like
> this, you will never get one!
Yep a bit like having kids, if you wait till you can afford them you'd never
have them :-)
>
>>... Any advice welcome, I'm seriously in the market.
>
> See above.
Thanks for that.If the hand holding is available to get it set up as I want
I'll be in the queue next Thursday. Just remember my ALDI front door is
about 20 feet from the sea wall and wish me better weather than today :-)
--
Sandra
People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did, but
People will never forget how you made them feel.
.
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