Medion's Atom-powered Akoya Mini laptop now on sale
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 27th 2008 7:49PM
posted Jun 27th 2008 7:49PM
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posted Jun 27th 2008 7:49PM
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Apparently this is the MSI Wind, but with Draft-N. Also all Medion laptops are rebranded MSI laptops.
Aldi is German, not American :p
Or not. Seeing as how I have 2 Aldi's in town, and I'm living in the US, you are incredibly wrong.
Now, there may be Aldi's in both places, but don't deny me my case of Ramen for $1.
I meant to say that ALDI is a German company (it originated here). It is very large and present in a lot of countries.
The post reads like it's an American company.
FUN DIIIIIIIPPPPP!!!!!!...
and then somebody told me about diabetes...
diabetes is worth getting if you got it from a fun dip... best candy ever.
eehrrmmmm , they have ALWAYS sold that Medion crap in ALDI
We made the mistake of buying a Tevion TV from Aldi. Of course most of the inputs are now broken, and it never did work with any remote besides the included one.
There have always been Medion lovers and haters, and there will always be. And this has mainly to do with Aldi. People often talk about Aldi products, since Aldi is an important Medion distribution channel.
Aldi is Europe's leading discount chain, and is esp. popular with the financially less fortunate because of its low prices.
The others love to talk detrimentally about Aldi, typically when they return home with a full cart's worth of Aldi stuff.
I've owned a Medion PC -- purchased at Aldi -- for 6 years now. One minor problem was solved quickly and under warranty. Oh yes, warranty is 3 years. Standard.
(the thing I don't understand with Aldi is some of the products they sometimes have on offer. Like golf balls?)
As for the financially less fortunate - not really true, I loved to shop there too when I lived in Germany because nothing beats that feeling of having bought an incredible bargain. The thing is that many Aldi products are actually really good products.
I can answer the "for whatever reason" question too: Aldi came up with the idea of a "Volks-PC" many years ago, and they have some sort of promotion every year. And they always commission Medion to build the machines. So Medion selling at Aldi/Hofer (same thing) is business as usual, they do it every year. I can remember times when the Volks-PC was such a great deal that people would queue up for it in the morning before it went on sale and fight over who got to buy one. These days it's more like they are selling the usual bargain Clevo like everyone else.
wtf is aldi??
this it way to much for a Atom based computer-ill take the E(yes E, not EEE for once) or E Slim over this any day
and they come in cool colors
this is cool
Medion mulimedia desktops are very good machines always incorporating the latest technology for a price that even excluding the software I have never managed to mach with off the shelf equivalent components.
Their problem seems to be after sale assistance, but they offer 3 years factory guarantee.
Last month Aldi was selling a quad core with 4 GB ddr2 nvidia 9800 GT, wireless everything, vista premium, N gigabit wifi for less than 900 bucks.
Oh and the design is nice too.
I have a new German client who's Medion desktop I recently repaired. That was available in Aldi, too, though she got hers in Germany before she moved here.
Anyway, it was pretty good quality. It was in for a power supply which failed and took out the video card with it, but the supply was actually a pretty good quality Fortron. The case was solid and easy to work in, and had a fairly nice MSI motherboard. It was a little low on memory, but considering it's age (3.4Ghz P4), 512MB wasn't as bad as a lot of Dells which sold with integrated graphics sharing the 256MB of system memory. It had discrete graphics, too.
Sure, I could build a lot better, but for the price it was a damned nice machine.
Akoya? Interesting name for a laptop
Well, this explains why none of the MSI Winds were available to ship in the US market today.
Well, that explains where all the MSI Winds that were supposed to ship to US customers today actually went.
It's also going on sale in Germany on the same day:
http://www.aldi-sued.de/de/html/offers/2827_7018.htm
If it went for 300 €, it would really be a great offer...
Aldi in Bavaria and other southern German states will be selling them for 399E starting July 3rd.
It's on Sale in Germany (Aldi North in white and black, Aldi South in silver and black colour) and in Austria (also silver and black). The price is very good, considering that it comes with Windows XP Home and Corel Office X3. Compared to the Asus EEE-Line it has a big Harddisk (80 GB) which is one one hand good - and on the other hand it's moving parts... heck, I'm trying to get one on thursday morning. Guess which colour?
The price sucks considering it (or the msi wind version) originally was planned to have BT and a six cell batterie for 360 €. I'm definitely not paying 400 € for a nebook that runs out of battery after 2 hours.
BTW: It's normal for Aldi to sell medion PCs and laptops.
> Guess which colour?
I'll definitely decide when I get there. Not a clue yet. Anyone got good pictures of all three colours (nice to live in the Aldi North/South "borderland". all the options right there)?
maybe i will buy one next week it seem to be good
Funny how they advertise GRAFIK POWER when it's only Intel GMA... I suppose by GRAFIK POWER they mean IT HAS GRAPHICS
Heck, I'm getting one too. Kinda hate the medion brand, but what the hell. Waited long enough. :)
hardly worth the price.
All these low cost laptops started with the OLPC, and then monstered into this regularly priced, lowered powered piles of ass-packages.
you misspelled Höfer...
xbox 360
A laptop that runs on atoms? Yes! Looks like they've finally mastered
nuclear powered laptops! 24 year battery life ftw!
I'm not sure I see the point of the article. Aldi has carried Medion for at least 10 years. Hofer is Aldi, it simply has a different name in Austria.
"which is the foreign equivalent of America's Aldi"
Nice, really :) Aldi is as German as Sauerkraut or Weißbier (good to have a German keyboard), so it's far more correct to call America's Aldi a foreign equivalent of German Aldi Süd (oder Austrian Hofer). It's not that important at all, but I want to see how Americans react if a German calls the US Starbucks a equivalent of German Starbucks :-))
As this is an American site, it's completely understandable that they compare the Austrian Hofer to something everyone in America seems to know: Aldi. Whether it's a German or American company does not matter in this context.
Germans should be proud that it was explained like this, as it means that every American knows Aldi.
(BTW, here in Belgium, Aldi has been selling Medion for ages... and not only computers, but GPS, DVD-recorders, TVs, etc.)