New Aldi Netbook

[mw_C32]

Going on from the recent posts for a mini laptop/netbook, I noticed this one comming up at Aldi this week....


Aldi Medion Link

Another Link

Looks pretty good to me....any thoughts? Is it any good?


M.

 

[wemorgan]

3yr warranty is nice as is the 250GB HD.

Has anyone tried W7 on an 1.66GHz Atom?

But if you're happy with Windows XP, 1yr warranty and 160GB a similar netbook can be had for £60 less, at under £200.

Also saw:

Engine Hoist £40

 

[BTB 500]

Also saw:

Engine Hoist £40

That was on Sunday ... might have some left though. Could make a hard top winch

 

[gaz_l]

I'm writing this on a dual core (N330) Atom nettop. It's no ball of fire but it runs W7 OK. I think the Aldi netbook will be a bit underpowered, only single core processor, only 1 GB RAM (my main concern - my nettop has 4GB), and the on-board graphics are a bit weedy.

I think it will be slow. But, if portability wins out over performance, it's your call. Otherwise, consider a nettop - this is what I bought:

Play.com (UK) : Acer Aspire Revo R3610 / Intel Atom Dual Core 330 1.6GHz / 4GB / 500GB / Windows 7 Home Premium / Nettop Desktop PC (92.NVFYZ.U2N) : Computing - Free Delivery

It doesn't come with a display, but does have a wireless keyboard and mouse (surprisingly good, once you get over the Fisher-Price looks). If you do go for this, expect to spend a couple of hours removing all the crapware that comes pre-installed - it took 3 and a half minutes to boot out of the box! Getting rid of the crap got that down to 1 min 10.

Cheers,

Gaz