Some gaming deals in the upcoming Aldi catalogue.
Medion Gaming mouse, 10,000 DPI with Optical Avago sensor $19.99 + Shipping (was $29.99)
Medion Gaming Wired Backlit Mechanical Keyboard with Outemu Brown switch, Full size $39.99 + Shipping (Was $59.99)
Medion Erazer Gaming Desk, 124cm (W) x 70cm (D) x 77.5cm (H) with LED Lights $199 + Shipping (Was 299)
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Is it full size or just a table riser thing?
For a moment, I thought the laptop brand was Brazzer 😬
Does it come with all the videos we like?
Johny Sins with some poor Russian ladies that can't afford buying cloths due to inflation and putin war having drooling PT sessions to distract the world for few a minutes!
The world’s best laptop….
The world’s wet laptop
stickiest
Plenty of RAM?
No SSD in the Brazzer version, only hard drive.
More STD than SSD
Hmm this seems like a good laptop
With the drop in gpu prices, I would expect better than a 3050ti at that price.
I wonder how the Paddle board compares to a Kings Paddle Board
According to the fine print not SA?!
Is this common Aldi behaviour?
Aldi only do delivery in some states right now, if sale is delivery only then not SA
Lol wonder what Razer thinks of the Erazer branding
Erazer is gonna rub Razer off! XD
They probably going to get a headache, but nothing Hedanol can't fix lol.
Probably built by RAZOR.
nar, it's just co-brand with brazzer
Noice
Lmao that laptop is dragged down by not having a wifi 6 chip 🤣
All mentioned deals are available online only
Whoa comes with 30 day trial for office 365. What a bargain
Office is a sham, a sub service just so I can write word documents and excel shit. Gone are the the days of just buying it outright and using it for life
you can still buy ms office outright. i.e. office 2021 is the latest one. 365 is a different product type.
I didn't know that, I usually just get popups on my PC to sub to 365
@mwblink86: complains vehemently about something - is wrong because doesn't know full details.. gee that's so uncommon these days!
They dont include the latest updates to excel in the standalone though. Need 365 for xlookup but eh.
It is cheaper in the long run, I still use my office 2016 standalone version, costed me around $120 or so back then
1tb OneDrive tho.
Office 365 is actually a pretty great bargain, especially the family version.
You'd spend nearly that amount by itself for the cloud storage and it has some very premium features in office. The fact it's such a good deal is why nobody really buys the non subscription version of Office and you don't hear about it, and of course Microsoft doesn't push it.
There is no good reason to enrich Microsoft even further; use LibreOffice, it is cross platform and zero cost! Microsoft don't deserve any to super profit on things that should cost little to nothing.
Or just install Libre Office or use Google Docs for free.
Although great, nearly everyone uses ms office already, and I have experienced many compatibility issues between them. You get what you pay for. Google Docs is pretty amazing for free though.
The online only versions of Office are also free: https://www.microsoft.com/en-AU/microsoft-365/free-office-on…
Nobody should be using proprietary file formats when open formats exist for office type files; even MS Office can save to open formats. Compatibility was a problem quite a long time ago, but only for some people.
@affinity: Then you lose features lol. No point paying for a product when you save it to a reduced feature open file format haha.
@affinity: At a basic level, many chart types and visualisations are not supported.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/differences-betwe…
@onlinepred: Interesting, but most of the capabilities of office documents are not used by many people; even back in the Word 95 days, 98% of features were not used by the vast majority of users.
Don't pay for the product, get used to the open formats and work with them. If you rely upon proprietary features, then that is a big negative as well as a consumer lock-in.
@affinity: We use charts at our office. One of the main parts of excel. Consumer lock in is everywhere. When it becomes too much money we might move. Every employee gets 1tb storage on one drive through too. So we value that highly for a few dollars a year per person. Also means when they get documents from clients in various formats, they can always open it and view the content. As a business we would have to pay for Google Docs anyway, and transition everything to Google (and get less really). So it's locked in either way…
@onlinepred: Yes, I see your point, but I am more against the super cheap pricing that locks people in and then later far excessive pricing that isn't justified; best to avoid in the first place where that is possible. The "free" use for home and / or education is another unfair lock in trap for many. If the features you need are not available and your business is big enough, perhaps contribute to LibreOffice with funds and/or developers and make a real difference if you can.
@affinity: Haha we used libre at our old job, no way would I put money into that. Decade on and still wouldn’t. Anyway, glad free products work for you. For my business or personal life I am beyond mucking around with open source and free software. Yep bust want things to work first go and not stuff around.
You are locked in, but you can stop anytime you want and buy the product outright or not at all. Nothing locked in. Having to train staff to use another product costs way more than a buck a month haha.
@onlinepred: The "original" product has a limited lifetime, it isn't like it ever really was buy once, use forever; support lifecycle stops that from being effective. And sadly so many of the Microsoft bugs are there because of MS Office and not forgetting the fact that a default user has admin rights when they shouldn't. You can't get updates for Office 2007 now, but people still use it, despite the security problems with the software that will never be fixed.
@affinity: MS office 2017 still gets updates FYI. 5 years old. Of course you aren't going get updates for a product that is 15 years old hahahaha!!!
Yea most people aren't aware of security or software or operating systems etc etc.
Yea if you agree to the telemetry then that's on you right? Use the internet or your phone and you are sharing everything anyway, if not to your ISP, then to your VPN, Browser or OS logs. Anyway, agreed, peace out mate. Like I said, you can opt to try and put up with the buggy Open source mess and deal with broken documents and issues hiring people and all the compatibility issues, or you could just get office.
@onlinepred: Oh, and there is that other issue…. Microsoft telemetry, links to NSA and the US gov't … your data is not just yours when you use Microsoft, same is true for Google and to a much greater extent, any Yahoo service. Anyway, surely enough said already.
You don't need to enrich Google either, they are NOT your friend, use DDG for search or some other privacy platform that doesn't profit from advertising to you and skimming every single website together with many other problems (analytics, fonts, etc..), the list goes on. If it doesn't work for Google at any time, it's off to the Google Graveyard or, as is happening with Google Apps users now, onto subscription when none were needed previously for many.
Is this laptop any good? I've never seen it before
It's either an overpowered general use laptop or an underwhelming gaming laptop for that price
Any recommendations for good laptop buy for general use atm?
This one?
And you will be overpowered!!
An entire 30 year collection of games released for Windows and DOS with some compatibility programs.
Almost anything run on the Unreal engine, almost anything made by Blizzard, almost anything released by Valve… gaming has been a thing since the 80's (much earlier; but concoles 'brought it home'); the range is HUGE.
Why buy a laptop with 3050ti at all? Unless just for cs:go i don't see the point
Either get a better card or no card.
Yeah, it is an awkward segment. It can hardly do any more than Integrated Graphics (except drain battery faster). Better to save money and just get integrated or spring for 3060+.
Aldi isn't targeting the educated user. They'll sell a boatload of these to people who don't know better & would otherwise only shop at Harvey Norman.
The real benefit for the GPU in this case is enhanced/accelerated productivity apps, example Autocad, viewing 3D models, some content creation apps etc. It's not going to rock your world for gaming. It's in an awkward spot where someone looking to do these things would probably go for a more professional unit.
I guess this gpu will have slightly better performance than the Ryzen 6000 iGPUs.
it’s an amd ryzen cpu …..do they have graphics built in like intel or needs a chip for graphics ?
Ive got this laptop. Its abit on the chunky side and battery doesnt last that long. halo infinite is a stuttering even on low settings. Battery is hot swappable. Worth it at $750 i paid for it off marketplace still sealed and unused.
Not a great deal for the laptop when we've seen 3060 gaming laptops from name brands for as low as $1100.
If you wanted a 3050 ti 15" gaming laptop just wait for the Dell G15 to drop to $899-999 again
Any suggestions on a good laptop around the $1k mark?
Which 3060 laptop at $1100? Keen to get some!
You own Aldi catalogues now dealbot? Or you have permission from Aldi to watermark their content?
The answer to that is no. Terrible behaviour.
Calm down Karen! Try to be less of a backseat copyright infringement officer and enjoy life a little. Let the powers to be worry about it!
Thanks Darren. The brotherhood are out in force to neg me on this sunny hot day in Brissy ☺️
That’s Mr Dave to you sir! Heh.
Hmm yeah wonder why he watermarked it…
So many people commenting about the laptop above either do very little research or have no idea what they are talking about.
Medion is a German based company and is a subsidiary of Lenovo. It's hardly a no name.
The chassis is also the AMD version of the CLEVO NP50HK. If you don't know who Clevo are, they are a large Taiwanese OEM/ODM, and produce much better quality products then the low end Acer and the Dell chassis.
Thank you'p!
All correct, I was just far too lazy to type that on a phone.
Misinformation frustrates me.
ERAZER hell yea
why does it have a veranda flap hanging on the back for real?
Outemu Brown switches are probably me favorite move from membrane.
Im well aware they are (close to) bottom barrel for mechanical switches; but they feel "better" than any membrane Ive tried, and really, for your first sub $50 mech keyboard, isnt that the point?
Im gonna grab a spare to glue to the server rack door.
Thanks!
MasterScythe 3 hours 30 min agonew
Outemu Brown switches are probably me favorite move from membrane.Im well aware they are (close to) bottom barrel for mechanical switches; but they feel "better" than any membrane Ive tried, and really, for your first sub $50 mech keyboard, isnt that the point?
My WASD buttons are always failing after a few months in my Kogan RGB with outemu browns. Have to clean them with dry contact cleaner and they're good again for another month or two -_-
Meanwhile my $50 Logitech MX 5500 membrane never skipped a beat in its 9 year usage…
Of course. Membrane has no moving parts, it's just a flexible rubber layer touching 2 stationary metal contacts; Mech is about feel. It's well known membrane is the better technology, assuming the matrix used is non ghosting.
Normal for Mech switches to fail over time.
With that said, I have 3x kogan boards, my housemate has 1, and 2 friends have 3 more between them… so thats…. 7 boards; and none of them have had issues yet.
At least 5 years old.
I recently built an EVGZ Z15 with a foam mod, 45g 1.2mm tactile switches, and a silicone pour. It feels amazing; but like any moving switch, I have spares for if things go wrong.
I have 2 of the same Kogan boards and both have the same issues with WASD. With the amount of fps hours I play I guess it's inevitable that they'll die.
Who on earth buy gaming pc from Aldi?
People who thinks Erazer is the same as Razer…
Depends if they know the quality of the CLEVO OEM, and have purchased their previous offerings.
Pretty big in the laptop scene.
And Aldi have sold computers ever since they started; havent offered a bad value or unreliable model yet.
I used to do home PC services, and every 4th or so one was a Medion; never the hardware at fault.
Are these Aldi laptops based on Clevo?
Anyone know if the waterflosser for $89.95 will come back to Aldi?
Thoughts on the mechanical KB?
If its your first, Outemu Brown switches are an amazing step up from cheap membrane.
You'll hear people badmouth them, because they're not "special" in the mech keyboard scene; but the elitism isnt needed, they're really quite nice for your first board. And browns are a 'safe bet' until you decide if you like linear or clicky (or hell, brown/tactile!)
Yes first mech KB
Is there a "better" one? Happy to pay more
I saw there's a Kmart one too.
But I wasn't expecting to buy my first from a Kmart/aldi 🤣
Not unless you want to start building and falling down a rabit hole.
These are absolutely fine, enjoy it.
brought the aldi keyboard 2 years ago and got solid use out of it till last week when it broke… we'll be buying this one.
https://shop.aldi.com.au/product-detail?product=707315&name=…
Direct link to this item on Aldi's website
… and looking at the photo of the keyboard, it doesn't look like a standard one - Y and Z are swapped, plus it has the ugly chunky two-line Enter key.
All items can be purchased on the Aldi site at a higher price today. The price drop is scheduled next week.
Shipping only to 4 states.
One USB-C Port though…. and yes I know you can buy a hub, it should at least one with 2
that SUP looks good, but already have the kings adventure and irocker
Only FHD and 15", not good enough for the price these days; it might be good in other ways, but overall, not good enough.
Picked up a 16" Lenovo with 2.5k (2560x1600) screen fairly recently — granted it isn't a gaming machine, but it is very good. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Pro QHD 16" AMD Ryzen 5600H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD $998 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas/ C&C) @ Officeworks
that extra 1 inch satisfied you?
It should be the new standard size and resolution; just like FHD should have been standard much earlier instead of 1366x768 on a lot of the cheap, built down to a price, laptops.
Wow razer lappy for 1300 is a bargain
![[NSW, VIC, ACT, QLD] Gaming Laptop R5 5600H, 16GB/512GB, 3050 Ti $1299 (OOS), Keyboard $39.99, Mouse $19.99, Desk $199 @ ALDI](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/97/688197.jpg?h=f25df234)
is it just me thinking that desk is gonna kick everybody in the shin?