Arb Geeks

[Lancstree]

I've been thinking of getting a laptop for general purposes but I've seen this deal on a desk top in ALDI from this Thursday. It seems a lot of bang for buck but I would have to fork out for a HD monitor too. I'm not up to date on computers these days but from a quick comparative search it looks a good spec. Any thoughts?

 

AMD Athlon™ X2 7750 Dual-Core processor

 

ATI Radeon™ HD4350 DirectX® 10.1 Premium graphic card

with 512MB graphic memory and digital video/audio output via HDMI

 

Massive 4GB (4096MB) DDR2 SDRAM†

 

640GB hard disk with GreenPower™ technology

for storing more than 120,000 songs or photos**

 

Multiformat DVD/CD burner

with DVD-RAM and Dual Layer support***

 

Network controller Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000 Mbit/s.) on board

 

eSATA for connecting external SATA devices such as hard drives

 

8 Channel High Definition Audio****

 

Stylish high-gloss design

 

Powerful DirectX® 10.1 graphics

 

Huge Software Package (OEM Versions)

Pre-installed and/or on CD/DVD and recovery DVD or CD.

 

* Windows Vista® Home Premium 32 Bit with new Media Centre user interface incl. Service Pack 1 (64 Bit version included on DVD)

* Microsoft® Works® 9.0

* Office Home and Student Trial Version 60 days test version (Internet connection required for activation). After 60 days you have to purchase a licence if you want to continue using the product.

* MEDION® Home Cinema Suite (PowerDirector 7, PowerProducer 5, PowerDVD™ 8, Media Show 4)

* Nero essentials (Nero Burning ROM 8 essentials, Nero Recode 3 SE essentials, Nero Express 8 essentials, Nero Vision 5 essentials)***

* Corel® Draw Essentials 3

* BullGuard Internet Security Pack Incl. 90 days update (free registration required) via Internet. After 90 days you have to purchase a licence if you want to receive ongoing updates.

 

System Recovery powered by Symantec http://www.symantec.com.

 

MEDION® data port 2

Simple, limitless storage capacity expansion – no cables required! The MEDION® data port 2 for the HDDrive2go ultra speed hard drive. This allows easy connection of an external HDDrive2go ultra speed hard drive directly to the PC without any cables or external power supply. Includes latest SATA docking port interface technology. (HDDrive2go ultra speed hard drive, not included – sold separately)

 

Connectivity (front)

 

* 2 × USB 2.0

* 1 × Firewire

* 1 Microphone

* 1 × eSATA

* 1 × Line In Integrated USB 2.0

* Flash memory card reader, reads and writes all current flash memory cards (not supplied)‡

 

Connectivity (rear)

 

* 2 × PS/2

* 4 × USB 2.0

* 1 × LAN (RJ45)

* 1 × Firewire

* 1 × Front Line Out

* 1 × Back Surround Line Out

* 1 × Side Surround Line Out

* 1 × Centre/Subwoofer Line Out

* 1 × Line In

* 1 × SPDIF (opt.) Out

* 1 × DVI-I

* 1 × VGA

* 1 × HDMI

 

 

 

Accessories included

 

* PS/2 keyboard

* Optical USB mouse