'Surprisingly powerful', $2,000. What's surprising if you pay that much?
You can get the same PC, exact same parts, for $700 cheaper if you build the damn thing yourself
[QUOTE=TheTalon;51265893]'Surprisingly powerful', $2,000. What's surprising if you pay that much?
You can get the same PC, exact same parts, for $700 cheaper if you build the damn thing yourself[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure that's in AUD, which means it's actually a pretty solid price.
I'm glad they can't be assed to actually tell us what the name of the PC is.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51265910]Pretty sure that's in AUD, which means it's actually a pretty solid price.[/QUOTE]
You can still build it for about $300~$600 less depending where you buy the parts from, and if they are on sale or not.
Those are all really decent specs except for the hard drive. Why is it 5400 RPM? I thought those disappeared from desktop and laptop computers 2 years ago.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;51265810]Aldi sells computers?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure our first family computer was bought from Aldi
As well as some of our laptops
They were all crap medions
[QUOTE=Humin;51266080]Those are all really decent specs except for the hard drive. Why is it 5400 RPM? I thought those disappeared from desktop and laptop computers 2 years ago.[/QUOTE]
You would be surprised, they are still everywhere you look.
Saw one of these in at my local, honestly wasn't really surprised as ours tends to get in a lot of the Medion prebuilds for some reason.
There's actually a much better version that they also sell that's better specced but for less, hell this model you can't even find on Medion's site.
[QUOTE=Humin;51266080]Those are all really decent specs except for the hard drive. Why is it 5400 RPM? I thought those disappeared from desktop and laptop computers 2 years ago.[/QUOTE]
My 8TB drive is 5980 RPM but it's not designed to go fast. On top of that you can get much better game performance with a 6600k + a cooler for less than a 6700. But the number is bigger so it appeals more to the target audience.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;51265810]Aldi sells computers?[/QUOTE]
This is actually an interesting marketing technique that Aldi (in Australia, at least) uses. Every now and then they'll bring out - for a limited time - a product completely unlike any other that they would normally sell. It gets consumers who may otherwise not shop at Aldi, to come into Aldi to check that product out, and hopefully to check out the rest of the Aldi store and eventually become a regular Aldi customer.
But saying all of that, Aldi got in trouble here for baiting customers by advertising that they had these interesting products, but when you actually went into the Aldi store they didn't have any, because they like only ordered a single unit which sold out fast.
[QUOTE=Zet;51266038]You can still build it for about $300~$600 less depending where you buy the parts from, and if they are on sale or not.[/QUOTE]
so? Not everyone builds computers yo
[QUOTE=Map in a box;51267926]so? Not everyone builds computers yo[/QUOTE]
People wasting hundreds of dollars because LEGO scares them is the saddest thing in the 21st century.
[QUOTE=helifreak;51267939]People wasting hundreds of dollars because LEGO scares them is the saddest thing in the 21st century.[/QUOTE]
why buy bookshelves if you can make them yourself
[QUOTE=Map in a box;51267940]why buy bookshelves if you can make them yourself[/QUOTE]
Easier to build a computer than to make bookshelves imo
[QUOTE=Map in a box;51267940]why buy bookshelves if you can make them yourself[/QUOTE]
I sure as shit couldn't make a bookshelf myself at 10 but I did build a PC.
[QUOTE=BF;51267203]This is actually an interesting marketing technique that Aldi (in Australia, at least) uses. Every now and then they'll bring out - for a limited time - a product completely unlike any other that they would normally sell. It gets consumers who may otherwise not shop at Aldi, to come into Aldi to check that product out, and hopefully to check out the rest of the Aldi store and eventually become a regular Aldi customer.[/QUOTE]
They also do that in Belgium, that's how I got the keyboard I've been using for 5 years and a gaming mouse that I've only replaced recently.
[QUOTE=Lebofly;51267953]Easier to build a computer than to make bookshelves imo[/QUOTE]
isn't the case for everyone
Medion is like 20 km away from me
I wouldnt buy shit from them
[QUOTE=helifreak;51267939]People wasting hundreds of dollars because LEGO scares them is the saddest thing in the 21st century.[/QUOTE]
It's completely understandable how someone with no knowledge of computers would rather not build a PC, especially with things like processors being both quite expensive and being fragile (especially if you don't really know what you're doing)
[QUOTE=helifreak;51267939]People wasting hundreds of dollars because LEGO scares them is the saddest thing in the 21st century.[/QUOTE]
Assembling a PC isn't LEGO. Besides, most people just can't be arsed. It's the same with cars, when switching to winter or summer tires. I could do it, but why bother?
[QUOTE=uber.;51268242]Assembling a PC isn't LEGO. Besides, most people just can't be arsed. It's the same with cars, when switching to winter or summer tires. I could do it, but why bother?[/QUOTE]
It's not LEGO, it's cheaper, easier and results are more fun.
They've been doing the same in Germany for years. It's always a really decent price.
[QUOTE=Zet;51266038]You can still build it for about $300~$600 less depending where you buy the parts from, and if they are on sale or not.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/CytNyf"]You'd have to find some pretty good sales to beat it out by more than $300.[/URL]
(That's with the cheapest parts that fit the spec sheet that they'd realistically use)
[QUOTE=Levelog;51268550][URL="http://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/CytNyf"]You'd have to find some pretty good sales to beat it out by more than $300.[/URL]
(That's with the cheapest parts that fit the spec sheet that they'd realistically use)[/QUOTE]
Corsair and ASUS aren't exactly known to be cheap, there are cheaper vendors.
Also keep in mind that in the past medion did order their [I]custom made[/I] components in bulk with all sorts of weird shit on them (at least here in germany), not exactly known for quality.
[QUOTE=Wizard of Ass;51268784]Corsair and ASUS aren't exactly known to be cheap, there are cheaper vendors.
Also keep in mind that in the past medion did order their [I]custom made[/I] components in bulk with all sorts of weird shit on them (at least here in germany), not exactly known for quality.[/QUOTE]
True on the second part, but you can't really order custom made parts yourself in bulk pricing. The original post was talking about how much you can save for building it yourself.
[QUOTE=rndgenerator;51268325]It's not LEGO, it's cheaper, easier and results are more fun.[/QUOTE]
except with lego if you fuck up badly you're not out of hundreds of dollars
[QUOTE=helifreak;51267939]People wasting hundreds of dollars because LEGO scares them is the saddest thing in the 21st century.[/QUOTE]
People having zero empathy of the situation is the saddest thing happening across all ages
Its not like you buy said legos in question for 30 dollars tops. Im not even going to explain what may happen should you fuck up.
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