Medion (Aldi's) PC pretty nice . . .

[mike neuliep]

Brad, do you know if you can buy these at all Aldies?  We have several of
them here being located south of Chicago.  How much were they?  

ps: the 87 ramcharger is still my daily driver :)  I've put 8000 miles on
it so far...

	Mike

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:

> I'm playing with that new Medion (Aldi's) PC . . . I got mine from
> Lawrence, KS yesterday, but suprisingly there wasn't quite the "run" on
> them like most expected.  It's a very nice machine, especially for the
> money.  I think a lot of people are put off by A) no check/credit card B)
> who buys a PC at a grocery store?  
> 
> Here's the quick spec look:
> 
> P4 - 2.66 GHz
> 120 Gig Seagate Drive
> 16X DVD-ROM
> 40x 12x 48x Sony CD Burner
> NVidia GeForce 4 128Mb Video Card
> 
> It comes preloaded with a lot of editing software (not bad software from
> just playing with it) and the typical stuff with Windows XP Home.  Overall
> the PC just is a great deal -- very well made and clean design inside.  I'm
> working on getting some photos up soon of the inside of it . . . gotta try
> out that frontside Smart card reader.  ;-)
> 
> Oh . . . and I decided instead of running Linux with VMWare and having XP
> on top, I'm going to do XP with VMWare instead.  I really hate to reload
> and find a lot of stuff that won't work with Linux and kill off my
> functionality.  Instead I'll ditch my 2nd box beside my old NT box and
> replace it with a "virtual" Linux box.   Heheheheh.
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
> 
> 
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