Aldi-Medion® MD98300 15.4" Multimedia Notebook
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Looking to buy a laptop, and Aldi's latest offer of a Medion® MD98300 15.4" Multimedia Notebook for £459.99 www.aldi-stores.co.uk/ looks to be very good.
Mobile and ready for the future…
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 TL-50 dual core processor (1.6GHz)
What is Dual Core?
Two processor cores work within the same physical processor chip to increase the performance of your PC. Dual core technology means that several demanding applications can be run at the same time, allowing your computer to think as fast as you can multi-task.
15.4" TFT WXGA Widescreen Display
1280 × 800 pixels. 16:10 widescreen cinema format for optimized DVD playback and more desktop space on screen.
1,024MB DDR2 SDRAM
High performance for all multimedia applications.
120GB Hard Disk
Ample space for up to 25,000 digital photos or 25,000 MP3 tracks (at 4MB per track).
NVidia® GeForce® Go 6150 graphics
Enables ultra-realistic effects and unmatched multimedia functionality for an incredible user interface experience in Windows Vista™ as well as with popular games and graphics intensive multimedia applications.
8 × Multi-standard DVD/CD Burner with DVD-RAM and Dual Layer support
Watch DVDs and even make your own. Reads and writes: DVD±R/±RW/±R DL/DVD-RAM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM.
Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g
Connect to the Internet without plugs or cables with Wireless LAN technology. Data transfer speeds up to 54Mbit/s (requires WLAN access point).
6-channel audio out (analogue + S/P-DIF)
Enjoy amazing “home cinema” surround sound with 6 channel audio out (use in conjunction with a compatible surround sound speaker system – not supplied).
4-in-1 memory card reader
Transfer photos the easy way. Accepts the following common memory cards: SD/MMC/MS & MS Pro.
2 multimedia speakers
Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbit/s on board
V.90 Modem including modem connection cable.
Mobile and ready for the future…
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 TL-50 dual core processor (1.6GHz)
What is Dual Core?
Two processor cores work within the same physical processor chip to increase the performance of your PC. Dual core technology means that several demanding applications can be run at the same time, allowing your computer to think as fast as you can multi-task.
15.4" TFT WXGA Widescreen Display
1280 × 800 pixels. 16:10 widescreen cinema format for optimized DVD playback and more desktop space on screen.
1,024MB DDR2 SDRAM
High performance for all multimedia applications.
120GB Hard Disk
Ample space for up to 25,000 digital photos or 25,000 MP3 tracks (at 4MB per track).
NVidia® GeForce® Go 6150 graphics
Enables ultra-realistic effects and unmatched multimedia functionality for an incredible user interface experience in Windows Vista™ as well as with popular games and graphics intensive multimedia applications.
8 × Multi-standard DVD/CD Burner with DVD-RAM and Dual Layer support
Watch DVDs and even make your own. Reads and writes: DVD±R/±RW/±R DL/DVD-RAM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM.
Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g
Connect to the Internet without plugs or cables with Wireless LAN technology. Data transfer speeds up to 54Mbit/s (requires WLAN access point).
6-channel audio out (analogue + S/P-DIF)
Enjoy amazing “home cinema” surround sound with 6 channel audio out (use in conjunction with a compatible surround sound speaker system – not supplied).
4-in-1 memory card reader
Transfer photos the easy way. Accepts the following common memory cards: SD/MMC/MS & MS Pro.
2 multimedia speakers
Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbit/s on board
V.90 Modem including modem connection cable.
ThePassenger said:
hut49 said:
Can you upgrade that measily 1 gig of RAM?
1Gb is plenty, even for games. Unless you're looking at using it for heavy photoshop/CAD stuff.
365.4MB used with FF2.0 (7 tabs), Thunderbird, text editor running with gaim, beryl and network management utils loaded.
"plenty" is a generous overstatement when you're running Vista and that 6150 graphics card which is using system memory. Run one of the latest games and you'll be very disappointed very quickly.
hut49 said:
ThePassenger said:
hut49 said:
Can you upgrade that measily 1 gig of RAM?
1Gb is plenty, even for games. Unless you're looking at using it for heavy photoshop/CAD stuff.
365.4MB used with FF2.0 (7 tabs), Thunderbird, text editor running with gaim, beryl and network management utils loaded.
"plenty" is a generous overstatement when you're running Vista and that 6150 graphics card which is using system memory. Run one of the latest games and you'll be very disappointed very quickly.
Sorry missed this originally.
Even with it borrowing 128MB your still well in the 'happy' zone. Vista can't be THAT much of a memory hog when it's tootling around the net.
You could always throw Ubuntu on it, that's very memory efficient (not broken a gig used yet regardless of me thrashing it
). 1GB not enough? What sort of apps do you run on a laptop?
Laptops are getting amazingly cheap now. e.g. Toshiba L30 Laptop Intel Celeron M 430 1.7GHz 512MB 60GB DVD-superMultiDL 15.4" Windows Vista Home Basic
for less than 300 quid!
Laptops are getting amazingly cheap now. e.g. Toshiba L30 Laptop Intel Celeron M 430 1.7GHz 512MB 60GB DVD-superMultiDL 15.4" Windows Vista Home Basic
for less than 300 quid!
rich-uk said:
1Gb with shared video memory on Vista is not enough (unless you disable the sidebar and other services).
Agreed - if you're going to spunk £££s on a new laptop, at least get one that won't churn the harddrive if you've got office, IE, and some media player open at the same time. And for £50 or so, upgrading it to 2GB'll be the cheapest performance boost going.
Graphics card on that's a bit widdly if you want to play any games, too.
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