Nice to see the evolution of the MT5 that I picked up a while back. That smooth-opening port cover is just heartwarming! I guess those desiccant packs were indeed a Medion thing. Great video!
"we all use to love the bloatware that computers use to come with" they still do come with bloatware the only difference now is its not OEM's bloatware anymore its all the crap microsoft themselves install.
@@ebbamb Yup. It's already downloaded onto every 10 system, against our consent, taking up space. Sitting on the taskbar with the little blue dot, trying to force me to upgrade.
Excellent video! I am absolutely jealous of this PC with it's options and high quality components! During that time (~2001-2002), my dad spoke with a Dell representative on the phone to "configure a PC for our needs" and it performed much worse than our Gateway from 1998! I found out later it had a Celeron and no AGP slot. Rough times...
Thank you! I would've killed for a system like this in the early 2000's. My PC was an AMD K6 Aptiva until about 2006...Ooof those Dells would've been so much better if they didn't save the $2 per unit by removing the AGP slot.. Shame
Interesting. Still have my 2003 Medion desktop in storage intact. XP, Pentium 4 2.66, 1GB RAM (originally 512MB), nVidia 7900GS AGP (originally an ATI Radeon 9000). Might fire it up again some day. Hasn't been used since 2011.
Man this brings back memories. Back in the early 2000s I used to work at a place building PCs - a lot of the time I'd build brand new custom order PCs from parts, but my boss somehow managed to buy pallets of old Medion returns that we'd have to try to fix. I've dealt with hundreds, if not thousands of them spanning Pentium 3 era to systems that look just like these ones, although the ones I dealt with had a GeForce 4 Ti4200 in them instead of the Radeon. I'd have to figure out what was wrong with them and replace/swap parts around to try to get as many working systems as I could. At the time I remember getting quite frustrated with them but looking back they were all made of decent components. Been a long time since I've seen one of these systems intact and running : )
I grew up right next to the german border in Switzerland and it was always very exciting to know that from next monday there will be a new Medion for cheap behind the border. I had no car as a kid and had towalk with a trolley lol
Nice Video, love the 4K, thank you. I have very fond childhood memories of these computers being almost everywhere over here in Germany. My neighbour had that MT6 and we had a Medion at home too, not sure what model, but it had an AMD Phenom i think. Also, you nailed saying "Einstellungen" :)
I had a part of my script where I mentioned some of my friends in Europe saying exactly this - but it didn't make the cut. In fact, I think that they were fairly popular here too since I've seen them a few times at recyclers!
@@arizonapalms I've really had no idea until today that they sold them outside of Europe. I remember seeing news reports about people going insane about Aldi computers, some people reportedly queued in front of Aldi starting at 4:30am on a Saturday to get their hands on a P4 Medion system.
I remember Windows laptops sold at my Aldi location in the mid to late 2000s. It was a Medion brand but advertised with internal components from Samsung Ram to Hitachi HDD. Truly wacky times lol!
You'll find most computers mix and match! My thinkpad came with a Samsung SSD and my alienware came with a WD SSD (which I upgraded to a nice Crucial one cause the stock WD one sucked)
1:29 I would've killed for a TV tuner and S-Video capture in 2003. This was a feature old power macintosh users loved to brag about. So many windows users were capturing RCA over USB solutions like Dazzle and the archival quality really suffered.
A few family members of mine in Croatia had those K-World capture cards which could capture full resolution and I was so jealous, it wasn’t until 2007 or so I got my first USB EzCap capture card and it sucked so bad.
Had one of these for a while. I can’t remember why returned it. Had an issue and spoke to their support over the phone that explained how to reinstall Windows!😊
My first PC was this exact PC when i was a teenager with the same graphics card etc. I think it was November 19th 2003 when it came out and my mom went to Aldi at 7am because these computers were in demand for the price. 1179€ if I'm not mistaken Was gaming on these until I build my first PC in 2007 and was really good too (Half life 2, Far cry, Doom 3) Really fond memories. Thanks for the video
Regarding the dual optical drives, the conventional wisdom at the time was that because writers were significantly more expensive than basic readers, it was better to have both and place all the day-to-day wear and tear on the cheaper drive and just use the writer when needed. Making piracy easier was just a side benefit.
These came out around the same time as those e-machines that Walmart had and look quite similar. I bet any money they were both made in the same factory.
Great review, well done. I have exactly the same machine that I bought from someone few years ago for 10€. Mine's hard disk was missing as it had crashed. No wonder, the cooling of the system as from the factory really sucks. The only air inlet with a guided flow is via the side panel and that ventilator is only directed to the cpu. The powerbloc's fan has to do the rest of the cooling for the case as nothing else is foreseen and the case is totally closed. What I did is, I installed a 250GB SSD and I installed an extra fan with an outlet on the back to cool the thing...marvelous...runs like a sewing machine now.
You're absolutely right - I've had one of these a few years ago that overheated and cooked itself after the CPU fan failed, I wonder if there was at least 1 extra fan in the case it would've survived maybe
I had the MD8386 model, the motherboard was now a LGA775 with a 3.2GHz P4 640 (not capable of Core 2 or even Pentium D) and 1GB of RAM - and 320GB of HDD (actually 2x 160) - and the Radeon X740XL in PCIE
Think back in the day they did commodore 64 Machines too so its a long standing thing with computers. I hear those C64s are colectable as not that many were made for aldi.
You should check the laptops as well. I have the leftovers of a Gericom Hummer, they were sold in Aldi, this thing is a tank ! Pentium 4-M 3.06Ghz, Radeon 9700M, extremely solid frame.
Hi. Good video. I had the same idea: Windows 98 retro PC by adding a soundblaster audio card and disabling the onboard audio chip and LAN, serial and parallel port. Replace the CMOS battery. But with a 160gb HD I prefer a dual boot. Installing Win98 on the drive partitionned with fdisk at x% and then last installing XP. If a game does not work in XP, Win98 could be used. My XP version create a dual boot automatically when 98 is installed first. You could try and see if it does the same with yours. Do not surf the internet with XP.
My mates parents had one of these. Maybe slightly later it had an external hdd dock on the top. It was stull being used when i went round a few years back and running pretty well.
I know the one you're talking about - I actually had one at one point (I think it was a Core 2 Duo) and it had the dock on top (never had the drive) I ended up using that motherboard for my main Windows XP rig for a while until the sound chip burnt out, which was partially my fault.
I had one of these, with P4 3GHz. I think it had a ATI X700 which I replaced with a X800 GTO Ultimate. Good times. My first PC and my first steps of upgrading parts. I got mine from another store (called media market).
My grandma purchased a aldi PC a few years ago has been using it since. it recently died power supply exploded while she was away lucky her house didn't burn down lol
I got one of those whith a p4 3.4ghz and the nvidia 6610xl it actualy runs rather good. The only problem is that de 3.4ghz p4 gets realy...realy hot but with a cpu cooler upgrade and a self made front fan that got that problem solved.
PATTY?! IS THAT YOU?! What are the chances lol, clicked on this binging retro pc yt because my mum had one of these hateful little machines, (hatefull in 2014 with a shitty maxtorr hdd begging to die) small world and absolutely lovely video sir
No way! The algorithm works in mysterious ways. Crazy how many people actually had one of these little beasts, shame that one had a Maxtor drive (the Seagate in this one is holding up pretty well)
@@togawearer2799 I know right? There is actually a world of airflow outside of cheaply made supermarket pcs. A world where pc parts are not choked to death. 😂
I have a soft spot for all the German aldi/lidl Medion devices - not because I ever had one but because the 2nd hand market was flooded with medion branded parts no one wanted as some small companies woudl buy up all the unsold stocks and scrap them for parts so medion parts were always your go to cheapo choice for building a budget PC. Well I might say I was sorta a genious of building my friends a pc that could barely run latest games for peanuts xD No one could ever beat my builds in price to performance but then I cut every single corner possible - can't affors a PSU good enough for the build? - No worries look at that 20€ server power supply! - Dude it's high quality server part, don't worry none of the connectors fit ATX, bring me that old PSU of yours and some beer I'll solder it up together... HAHAHAHAHA My last poverty build was cyberpunk capable PC in the middle of covid shortages for 250€ total
Yeah, I bought one of their very early machines from the late 90's and it just worked. I keep looking for their Aldi hook ups but unfortunately they don't.
Nice to see the evolution of the MT5 that I picked up a while back. That smooth-opening port cover is just heartwarming! I guess those desiccant packs were indeed a Medion thing. Great video!
I've gotta say, I love how extra these Medion systems are, such a delight. Glad you enjoyed it!
An Australian man making videos about old pc’s. Ah the joys of life.
0:20 they still sell brand-new Medion PCs to this day in our Aldi (Hofer) in Austria
My dad was in love with getting computers and digital cameras from Aldi haha
"we all use to love the bloatware that computers use to come with" they still do come with bloatware the only difference now is its not OEM's bloatware anymore its all the crap microsoft themselves install.
So true - at least back then you could reinstall Windows and have a fresh set up. Now all the junk comes back! Windows XP > Windows 11
@@arizonapalms Windows peaked at XP / 7. Everything after 7 was a downgrade. I'm super unhappy that they'll be forcing everyone onto 11 this fall.
@@aeixo2533 hard agree with you there. If it weren't for security I'd happily daily Win7.
@@aeixo2533 They are? I hadn't heard about that. I still use Windows 10.
@@ebbamb Yup. It's already downloaded onto every 10 system, against our consent, taking up space. Sitting on the taskbar with the little blue dot, trying to force me to upgrade.
I quite like your channel! I was surprised to see less than 500 subs woh. I am gonna subscribe! Thank you for bringing back some memories of 2003!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that! :)
Excellent video! I am absolutely jealous of this PC with it's options and high quality components! During that time (~2001-2002), my dad spoke with a Dell representative on the phone to "configure a PC for our needs" and it performed much worse than our Gateway from 1998! I found out later it had a Celeron and no AGP slot. Rough times...
Thank you! I would've killed for a system like this in the early 2000's. My PC was an AMD K6 Aptiva until about 2006...Ooof those Dells would've been so much better if they didn't save the $2 per unit by removing the AGP slot.. Shame
Top production value for a (for now) small channel. Keep on!
Really appreciate it, thank you!
Interesting. Still have my 2003 Medion desktop in storage intact. XP, Pentium 4 2.66, 1GB RAM (originally 512MB), nVidia 7900GS AGP (originally an ATI Radeon 9000). Might fire it up again some day. Hasn't been used since 2011.
Get that partnership going again! Aldi and Medion are the best partnership. Bring it on again!
From what I hear, it's still ongoing! I'm going to keep my eye out
Man this brings back memories. Back in the early 2000s I used to work at a place building PCs - a lot of the time I'd build brand new custom order PCs from parts, but my boss somehow managed to buy pallets of old Medion returns that we'd have to try to fix. I've dealt with hundreds, if not thousands of them spanning Pentium 3 era to systems that look just like these ones, although the ones I dealt with had a GeForce 4 Ti4200 in them instead of the Radeon. I'd have to figure out what was wrong with them and replace/swap parts around to try to get as many working systems as I could. At the time I remember getting quite frustrated with them but looking back they were all made of decent components. Been a long time since I've seen one of these systems intact and running : )
I grew up right next to the german border in Switzerland and it was always very exciting to know that from next monday there will be a new Medion for cheap behind the border. I had no car as a kid and had towalk with a trolley lol
Nice Video, love the 4K, thank you.
I have very fond childhood memories of these computers being almost everywhere over here in Germany. My neighbour had that MT6 and we had a Medion at home too, not sure what model, but it had an AMD Phenom i think.
Also, you nailed saying "Einstellungen" :)
I had a part of my script where I mentioned some of my friends in Europe saying exactly this - but it didn't make the cut. In fact, I think that they were fairly popular here too since I've seen them a few times at recyclers!
@@arizonapalms I've really had no idea until today that they sold them outside of Europe.
I remember seeing news reports about people going insane about Aldi computers, some people reportedly queued in front of Aldi starting at 4:30am on a Saturday to get their hands on a P4 Medion system.
I remember Windows laptops sold at my Aldi location in the mid to late 2000s.
It was a Medion brand but advertised with internal components from Samsung Ram to Hitachi HDD.
Truly wacky times lol!
You'll find most computers mix and match! My thinkpad came with a Samsung SSD and my alienware came with a WD SSD (which I upgraded to a nice Crucial one cause the stock WD one sucked)
1:29 I would've killed for a TV tuner and S-Video capture in 2003. This was a feature old power macintosh users loved to brag about. So many windows users were capturing RCA over USB solutions like Dazzle and the archival quality really suffered.
A few family members of mine in Croatia had those K-World capture cards which could capture full resolution and I was so jealous, it wasn’t until 2007 or so I got my first USB EzCap capture card and it sucked so bad.
Had one of these for a while. I can’t remember why returned it. Had an issue and spoke to their support over the phone that explained how to reinstall Windows!😊
Man i love the XP era of computing and technology. So much optimism and random fun.
I just want to go back!
My first PC was this exact PC when i was a teenager with the same graphics card etc. I think it was November 19th 2003 when it came out and my mom went to Aldi at 7am because these computers were in demand for the price. 1179€ if I'm not mistaken
Was gaming on these until I build my first PC in 2007 and was really good too (Half life 2, Far cry, Doom 3)
Really fond memories. Thanks for the video
Sounds like you made some good memories with those games in mind! Glad you enjoyed the video
I wouldn’t mind one of these medion machines, they seem pretty cool.
Regarding the dual optical drives, the conventional wisdom at the time was that because writers were significantly more expensive than basic readers, it was better to have both and place all the day-to-day wear and tear on the cheaper drive and just use the writer when needed. Making piracy easier was just a side benefit.
My father always had dual drives for this reason I think, but I only ever had a CD-R burner for years and years 'til my first Mac
“Combination modem and TV Tuner”
What a bizarre combination.
I don't think we will see such a concoction ever again.
good content make love this old retro pc stuff.
15:19 greatest Outro in TH-cam history lol
These came out around the same time as those e-machines that Walmart had and look quite similar. I bet any money they were both made in the same factory.
Stock power supply in theses Medion / Aldi computer are very reliable, they are Fortron PSU. Good quality
The one in here was buggered unfortunately, 12V rail was all over the place and the system was unstable
Great review, well done. I have exactly the same machine that I bought from someone few years ago for 10€. Mine's hard disk was missing as it had crashed. No wonder, the cooling of the system as from the factory really sucks. The only air inlet with a guided flow is via the side panel and that ventilator is only directed to the cpu. The powerbloc's fan has to do the rest of the cooling for the case as nothing else is foreseen and the case is totally closed. What I did is, I installed a 250GB SSD and I installed an extra fan with an outlet on the back to cool the thing...marvelous...runs like a sewing machine now.
You're absolutely right - I've had one of these a few years ago that overheated and cooked itself after the CPU fan failed, I wonder if there was at least 1 extra fan in the case it would've survived maybe
stumbled across your channel i like you content and your presentation. keep up the good work. You gained a subscriber ,
thank you very much!
Yay, I'm your 600th subscriber o/
Really interesting channel c:
I had the MD8386 model, the motherboard was now a LGA775 with a 3.2GHz P4 640 (not capable of Core 2 or even Pentium D) and 1GB of RAM - and 320GB of HDD (actually 2x 160) - and the Radeon X740XL in PCIE
Think back in the day they did commodore 64 Machines too so its a long standing thing with computers. I hear those C64s are colectable as not that many were made for aldi.
great stuff!
dunno how this got onto my algorithm but pretty cool nonetheless
Glad you enjoyed it!
You should check the laptops as well. I have the leftovers of a Gericom Hummer, they were sold in Aldi, this thing is a tank ! Pentium 4-M 3.06Ghz, Radeon 9700M, extremely solid frame.
I don't think I've come across an Aldi laptop on eBay here, but would always be keen if I find one. I always love a discrete GPU on a laptop!
Hi. Good video. I had the same idea: Windows 98 retro PC by adding a soundblaster audio card and disabling the onboard audio chip and LAN, serial and parallel port. Replace the CMOS battery. But with a 160gb HD I prefer a dual boot. Installing Win98 on the drive partitionned with fdisk at x% and then last installing XP. If a game does not work in XP, Win98 could be used. My XP version create a dual boot automatically when 98 is installed first. You could try and see if it does the same with yours. Do not surf the internet with XP.
My mates parents had one of these. Maybe slightly later it had an external hdd dock on the top. It was stull being used when i went round a few years back and running pretty well.
I know the one you're talking about - I actually had one at one point (I think it was a Core 2 Duo) and it had the dock on top (never had the drive)
I ended up using that motherboard for my main Windows XP rig for a while until the sound chip burnt out, which was partially my fault.
@@arizonapalms yeh it could well of been core 2 duo. Probably just about enough spec to allow it to keep upgrading windows.
I had one of these, with P4 3GHz. I think it had a ATI X700 which I replaced with a X800 GTO Ultimate. Good times. My first PC and my first steps of upgrading parts. I got mine from another store (called media market).
My grandma purchased a aldi PC a few years ago has been using it since. it recently died power supply exploded while she was away lucky her house didn't burn down lol
i had a i7 laptop form medion it was a big beast stil in operation for just simple tasks with SSD still great
They made really good pc's
In the UK medion PCs represent pretty good value.
You've got it all wrong at 1:37. That's there either for BACKUPS of movies ;)
or to play Beyond Good and Evil at the same time as Unreal 2000
Yes of course, and burning Linux .iso's :)
well filmed video to
If its the one Im thinking of it was a good value, I was considering it
Bloatware was half the fun of a new PC. These days bloatware is almost spyware.
Was this bought in Oz or somewhere else? Cause I know we didn't get Aldi in QLD till around 05 I think
Aldi first opened in Australia in 2001, I remember my local one as early as 2004
Wasn't that early here in QLD we get everything late lol@@arizonapalms
Keep it with Windows XP that's what it came with.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Maybe I'll dual-boot to have the options.
I envy your moustache.
thanks, i grew it myself!
I got one of those whith a p4 3.4ghz and the nvidia 6610xl it actualy runs rather good. The only problem is that de 3.4ghz p4 gets realy...realy hot but with a cpu cooler upgrade and a self made front fan that got that problem solved.
my friend had a pc like this it had a q6600 cpu and a 8600GT but was all priority parts he gave it to me but I resold it.
PATTY?! IS THAT YOU?! What are the chances lol, clicked on this binging retro pc yt because my mum had one of these hateful little machines, (hatefull in 2014 with a shitty maxtorr hdd begging to die) small world and absolutely lovely video sir
No way! The algorithm works in mysterious ways. Crazy how many people actually had one of these little beasts, shame that one had a Maxtor drive (the Seagate in this one is holding up pretty well)
einstellungen means settings. Just letting you know, AP.
I ended up translating it later on - Fun seeing some of Medion's German roots leftover in the system!
Had one of these in 2003 with a pentium 4 3.0 ghz and a fx 5200. No airflow at all. No temperature sensors. It wasn't great.
! Those machines were awesome! You're deluded!
@@togawearer2799Only people who are not able to build something themselves will be happy with this.
@@mealot7613Late 90's! Airflow? That guy is special!
@@togawearer2799 I know right? There is actually a world of airflow outside of cheaply made supermarket pcs. A world where pc parts are not choked to death. 😂
I have a follow up idea in mind for this system - including some cooling upgrades
What?! 160GB HDD I«from 2002???
(Einstellungen = settings) am a german my self :)
I dunno. Can it play Doom?
Trick question. Everything plays Doom.
The real test is if it can play Crysis 1 and/or FarCry 1 on max graphics.
Windows x-pp-c
Dual boot!
... spoiler alert!
they still sell medion hardware germany a few times a year even tvs tablets etc. I also had that pc
I have a soft spot for all the German aldi/lidl Medion devices - not because I ever had one but because the 2nd hand market was flooded with medion branded parts no one wanted as some small companies woudl buy up all the unsold stocks and scrap them for parts so medion parts were always your go to cheapo choice for building a budget PC. Well I might say I was sorta a genious of building my friends a pc that could barely run latest games for peanuts xD No one could ever beat my builds in price to performance but then I cut every single corner possible - can't affors a PSU good enough for the build? - No worries look at that 20€ server power supply! - Dude it's high quality server part, don't worry none of the connectors fit ATX, bring me that old PSU of yours and some beer I'll solder it up together... HAHAHAHAHA My last poverty build was cyberpunk capable PC in the middle of covid shortages for 250€ total
Hell yeah - I love a slapped together build that does everything you need it to do for a quarter of the cost!
i bought several nice aldi comp-uters and one time a laptop same medion brand, super nice hardware for the price
Yeah, I bought one of their very early machines from the late 90's and it just worked. I keep looking for their Aldi hook ups but unfortunately they don't.