http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/ Engadget Comments for Medion's Atom-powered Akoya Mini laptop now on sale http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
Now, there may be Aldi's in both places, but don't deny me my case of Ramen for $1.]]>Jun 29th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/The post reads like it's an American company.]]>Jun 29th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
and then somebody told me about diabetes...]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/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?)]]>Jun 28th 2008 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
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.]]>Jun 29th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/and they come in cool colors]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/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.]]>Jun 27th 2008 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
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.
]]>Jun 27th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 27th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
http://www.aldi-sued.de/de/html/offers/2827_7018.htm

If it went for 300 €, it would really be a great offer...]]>Jun 28th 2008 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
BTW: It's normal for Aldi to sell medion PCs and laptops.]]>Jun 28th 2008 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/ 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)?]]>Jun 28th 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
All these low cost laptops started with the OLPC, and then monstered into this regularly priced, lowered powered piles of ass-packages.]]>Jun 28th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 28th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/nuclear powered laptops! 24 year battery life ftw!]]>Jun 28th 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/Jun 29th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/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 :-))]]>Jun 29th 2008 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/medions-atom-powered-akoya-mini-laptop-now-on-sale/
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.)]]>Jun 30th 2008 3:17AM