Vintage 2003 German Komputer

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inn4tler@reddit

The Medion brand still exists, but has been majority-owned by Lenovo since 2011.

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jdxnc@reddit

"vintage" and "2003" in the same sentence makes me feel really old 😭

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xstrawb3rryxx@reddit

Bad news, anything pre 2010 is vintage at this point!!

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Man, what a blast from the past. This exact same model was out family PC from around 2004-2009ish, including the pen marks on the reset button when the damn thing crashed again. But overall a solid machine for a very good price. The case was in use for another \~10 years at my parents when in 2009 we replaced all the internals (mobo, cpu, ram, gpu, etc.)

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tbt10f@reddit

What is the ConnectX thing in the bottom bay?

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codeworker_@reddit

It was a front I/O expansion with audio in/out, USB Ports and I think an SD-Card reader. Source: we had exactly the same PC as the family computer in approx. the same time-frame (2004 I think)

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LaundryMan2008@reddit

Probably a blanking plate designed to look like a floppy drive, my work experience has one with that same style blanking plate so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was that

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Zealousideal-Deer724@reddit

Medion --> Aldi Brand.

Avoid at all costs 🙃

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AustriaModerator@reddit

since medion is one out of many oems that simply rebrand asian products, why avoid them? the hardware is the same as everywhere. the support of all brand sucks nowadays, hp, dell, medion & co included. medion is at leas an european brand (important in times of r/BuyFromEU)

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Zealousideal-Deer724@reddit

Just we don't speak about today. This is about early 2000s

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jedp@reddit

I remember seeing the PCs that LIDL sold and they were actually pretty good, built with Athlon XP CPUs, ASUS motherboards, and decent graphics cards. Not sure about Aldi, though.

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Zealousideal-Deer724@reddit

Most of this discount PCs had restricted BIOS. Flashable, but a pain in the a... back port

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jedp@reddit

I wouldn't call the PCs from LIDL I saw back then discount, actually, they were mid/high tier, though decently priced. However, I'm not from Germany, so what they had on offer here probably differs.

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gcc-O2@reddit

I am in the US and we had an Inteva from Sam's Club.

It was so bargain basement that there is little internet presence about them now (or then), but the nice thing is it was built from all standard form factor parts, as opposed to proprietary ones like PB.

I've only see two of the towers show up on eBay in good condition over the last few years and I bought both of them. They used those Biostar AT motherboards with a PS/2 mouse port next to the keyboard port, and the case has the hole for it. And the plastic doesn't seem to yellow much.

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EternalSkullman@reddit

Are they that bad? i got a MSI MS-6747 from them and it ran pretry well, bar the slight inconvenient of not having SATA despite the NB and SB being able to support it.

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Zealousideal-Deer724@reddit

Well, performance wise they we're okay. Enough for most purposes at the time. Problems begin if you want to modify, e.g. add GPU, more RAM, additional drives.

They saw this as closed systems, where as PCs are mostly open systems. (Had to argue with Support [oh boy]).

Also they were cheap, iirc.

So all in all: not bad but also not very good. Lower middle field

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TxM_2404@reddit

I have one of these OEM computers and it came with a 2GHz P4 Socket 423, a really rare chip. I got it just to take that CPU. However it was glued to the cooler. It came off eventually, but not without some damage to the heatspreader.

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Souta95@reddit

They were really good for their price point. Not crammed to the brim with proprietary parts, but not much room for upgrades, either. You could generally replace parts with standard ones if needed, unlike some of the bigger brands (points finger at Dell).

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FTFreddyYT@reddit

I‘ll be real, don‘t expect much. Medion is like bottom tier brand.

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IfLetX@reddit

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