I have a confession: Aldi sell great chocolate and being right opposite an Aldi store in North Sydney, it makes it easy to be tempted to drop in for an afternoon fix of the Swiss elixir. But what baffled me was that every time I visited the store, consumers were walking out with a notebook under their arm along with a bag of groceries.
Further investigations revealed that not only was Aldi selling pallet loads of notebooks, it was a 17-inch Medion notebook that came with 3GB of memory, 250GB hard drive, Intel Core 2 Duo processors, TV tuner and Windows Vista Home Premium. Also thrown in was a built in webcam, high performance Nvidia graphics card as well as HDMI connectivity.
The most impressive item for the German notebook was the price which at $1,499 sounded too good to be true. So how did the notebook stack up and how well did it go up alongside the big brands like Toshiba, Lenovo, HP and Acer?
