At 09:40 PM 3/31/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>That does have some pretty bad ass specs for the price.  If that the 
>really quite one?

Yes, it's the QUIET one . . . . I happened to catch a few posts here and 
there (in German I think) on people putting Linux on their MD8000 machines 
. . . only stands to reason.  My only complaint was with the memory 
(256Mb).  For $89 I bumped it 512Mb to 768Mb (DDR2700).   When I did some 
price matching back in NOVEMBER when I was looking at the system, it was a 
great deal.  At $200 less, it's an even better deal.  A guy I work with has 
been wishy-washy and as I pointed out to him, even though I bought mine in 
November (thanksgiving) I have been getting the benefit from the speed and 
programs I can run on this machine and thus made a lot more $$$ than had I 
waited for the price drop.

If you do some research, you'll find Medion has sold TONS (millions?) of 
PC's in Europe.  They are switching over from NVidia cards (which I love in 
this pc) to the ATI cards . . . and buying 300,000 for a new batch of 
PC's.   Impressive numbers.  I've been on the support line twice with them 
and never once had a problem.

Oh yea -- I quoted the component list to a computer shop one day for grins 
and he said his cost on the items was about the $899 price (back in 
December or January . . I forget).  I have a 12 month warranty, and didn't 
have to dork with mailorder company, building the PC, and tweaking it to 
get it to run right.  It has Windows XP home, but VMWare fired up and now I 
have Mandrake 8.2 on here and it really is happy with 256Mb.

The sad part about this is these PC's are built very nice, yet the "Aldi 
bargain basement food" stigma is probably hurting sales . . . that and the 
"cash or debit" only part.  A lot of consumers have no problem getting a PC 
from Sam's Club or Costco (and a jar of KY to go) but they look weird if 
you mention buying a PC from a "grocery" store.  I noticed one day that 
Office Depot I believe was starting to carry the Medion brand.

Ok -- I'm done playing sales person for the night . . . . I'm not on the 
payroll . . . just another happy customer.

Bradley Miller, Owner/Programmer/Designer
AccessZone Design - www.accesszonedesign.com
Blue Springs, Missouri
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