another Lidl Thursday Special

yellum

Athlon xp 1800 machine for €1100

40gb hd
256mb ddr ram
32 speed cd rewriter
16 speed dvd drive
5 pci slots
1 agp
plus a few other things I can't remember from the ad.

No monitor.

elexes

wonder what they don with the screens ???

lynchie

Yellum,

Where are ya reading this from? A Newspaper? Have this crowd got a website? All I can find is a German website but nothing about the special you are talking about. Have they got stores here in Ireland?

mocar

They have stores in a lot of places. Two were broken into last night in the midlands. Where are you living?

yellum

I read a leaflet that was from their peoples republic of cork store. They're a sister company to aldi.

spooky donkey

Yeah they dont have a web site in english youre best bet is to call into a store and see what they have.

po0k

The Machines are XP1800+
Hynix 256MB 266Mhz DDR ram
Seagate 40GB ATA100 (probably 5400rpm)
Asus A7V255-E (1x AGP Pro), onboard sound it would seem too.
Asus AGP-V7100 Pro/T (GF2MX400 64MB - TVout S-VHS+Composite cable)
Samsung 16xDVD/48xCD
Asus 32x/12x/40x CD Rewriter
Mitsumi Floddy Drive
Askey 56Kmodem V1456
Soundcard is a CMedia 6channel Dolby 5.1 Surround
5 PCi slots (4 unused)
Has 2xUSB (1.1?) ports and Mic+Headphones jacks mounted in a 3.5" bay on the front
Logitech Wheel Mouse,
2 Year Manufacturer's Guarantee incl. Pickup service and Free Hotline
WinXP Home Edition OEM

All that for €1100, excluding a monitor.
I'm not too sure if it's worth it, specially with the card, should be a GF2 Ti or something. MXes don't cut it.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

sound is onboard too, and the modem is prob a winmodem, alot of these packege deal ones are

spooky donkey

any specials in lidl this week?

Doodee

HeHe, its pritty ok I suppose. The one I got from ALDI was Far better.
p4 1.6Ghz
GF3Ti200
80GB Seagate 7200rpm HD
Firewire
6channel c-media sound
256Mb Ram
16x CD-Burner
16xDVd
tv in/out and what have u.
All for £999 Excl a Monitor.
lol, only thing was they were selling 15" TFT monitors for £250

Jorinn

I'd buy the €250 TFT monitors, 2 preferably if I had the money.

gar

I got me one of the 19" Monitors on friday.
sweet as a nut boy!

very nice.... just need to build me a PC to go with it now

spooky donkey

So the 19" monitors are making a return!
Id say lidl will make a habit of this kind of thing!

zAbbo

just to clear are these monitors CRT or TFT`s

Gavin

Trinitron CRT's.

Gav

zAbbo

Cheers just that post byJorinn put me off a bit, i was wondering are ALDI the same crowd as there is one of these in Dundalk and they have a nice deal on some stuff:

http://www.aldi-stores.co.uk/IE/specials_01_11/specials_set.html

Does anyone know if they sell components as well
One of these days i`ll get my lazy ass along to one of there stores

BuffyBot

Does anyone know if they sell components as well

Nah, what you seei n the ad is what you get with these people. They aren't computer stores. They might just happen to have them on special on occasions

spooky donkey

Aldi are owned by lidl. ANd it is a food super market that some times has good deals. Like 279 for a dvd player with the suround speaker system i saw there a while ago, and those cheap laptops.

mocar

Available from 11th July, 2002


Targa Visionary multimedia pc xp1800+
Quantispeed architecture
266 mHz frontside bus
hynix 256mb memory
seagate 40gb ata 100 hard disk storage
mainboard with 5 x pc1,1 x agp pro, 3 x Dimm extendible up to 3 GB DDR Ram 4 USB, Gameport speaker output and lots more
Graphics card 64MB RAM
56K Modem
Dolby surround sound
32x cd rewriter
dvd drive

€899.oo
any good
also r440 force feedback wheel €44.99

mocar

Forgot to say dont think there is a monitor with that.

po0k

Any more detail on the graphics card?

And is there a web page for the irish lidl specials?
I've googled before but turned up nothing.

spooky donkey

Lidl have been very quite of late on hardware deals, but at least they are bulding a new store across the road from my house!

Cond0r

I'd just like to draw attention to the fact that when Aldi/Lidl have offers like this, they have about 10/15 of them in each store, they open at 9 on thursday mornings, by 10 past, all the stuff is gone. Aldi and Lidl are not the same company as some have said, they are competitors. I went down to the nearest one where I live (Lidl) there a while ago to get a nice tv they were selling, and arrived a bit late, it was 9.10am and all of them had been sold.

That's it.

< Cond0r >

spongebob

Hi.

I got me oul fella one of the Lidl 19" monitors there recently. Sound as a hound for €250 and with a 2 year (back to base in Dublin ISTR) warranty as well.

Lidl also had 16xW Phillips CDRW machines for €100 recently....that includes VAT and delivery when ya think about it.

And they do lovely sixpacks of German Pils too. mmmmmmmm

CDR 10 packs WITH cases for 74c each. (always in stock at checkout).

Ya do have to be there at 9AM on Thursday for the specials as the man said but apart from that I would not diss Lidl or Aldi.

M

mocar

sound card
cmedia 6 channel sound on board
dolby surround system 5.1

graphics card Asus i think
AGP-V7100 Pro/T
GeForce2 MX400 incl. TV-Out
with S-VHS and Composite Connection Cable
nVIDIA 64MBRam


no no web site and yes you do have to be there before 9.
They also have a vertical mini stereo system for €89.99
mo

strat

any info on these cd-r's

they sound like generic ones - speed ??

mocar

octron cdr80. 12x speed
they are not bad.
mo

Cond0r

I've got the cd-rs before too, they're good. From both lidl and aldi, they both have them at the check-outs permenantly.

< Cond0r >

Gerry

probably a good thing there no monitor with it, my lidl monitor has now got completely screwed colours.

leeroybrown

I remember someoen mentioning that they knew someone who was contracted for warranty repairs on those LIDL monitors and the failure rate was huge.

I've used ALDI's CDR's too. They seem OK.
Tevion 40x (yes 40x - although I havn't used any at 40x yet)

irishgeo

i have a friend who works in alidi. He gives me the inside info on whats due. I have my eye on the surrond speakers. Are they any good.

Here is the specs

Surround Sound Speakers 69.99Euro
5.1 active sound system with power subwoofer for great CD and DVD listening enjoyment. 200 watt (PMPO) subwoofer for a full bass sound with integrated amplifier and 5 x 50 watts (PMPO) satellite loud speakers. LED operating display with volume control for satellite speakers and subwoofer. Includes speaker cables, AC adaptor and 5.1 channel audio input.

I dont have a 5.1 sound card but would get one if i got these.

I hear its mad trying to get in at 9. I been told its like there is a war on and the specials are the rationed food.

Any suggestions what time to be at the store to be near the top of Q.