Medion Akoya Mini E1210

Good lightweight net book at a reasonable price, processing is occasionally slow but usually very good. It has a decent size hard drive and RAM as well as having built in wireless and a reasonable battery life even during heavy usage. Also there are lots of USB ports and a memory card slot on the side which are very useful. However the main downside is that it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive although one of these can be purchased for around £30. When watching TV shows through 4OD occasionally the screen would go blank and it wouldn't respond but this could be rectified by putting it into hibernation mode and then coming out of it. The screen size is very reasonable and the ...  Read the complete review

Medion used to be compared to like morphy richards, another words rubish quality and some thing that would not last. Working in the computer industry myself I would not normaly touch these machines. However Aldi ran a promotion on this model and a couple of others and it really seemed to be a very decent specification. The price was very low and the warranty was an impressive x3 years, which what manufacture gives those? The design and layout of the machine is very clean, although I think that the shinny top was a bad idea as very easily to scratch. The speed is second to none, it keeps up very well with my mac laptop and thats very suprising. Its an ideal machine ...  Read the complete review