Looks a cracking deal to me. There's a MEDION Akoya P5348 DR PC (B-Grade) also but that has Intel® Core ™ i5-4440 quad-core processor, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX745 DirectX®11 graphics with 2048MB DDR5 graphics memory, DVI-I, HDMI and 8 GB DDR3 RAM but it's just shy of £300 but even at that, it seems a good price.

Good deal. Nearly posted it myself but decided I'd done enough for one day. :wink:

Ahahah thought I might aswell make a contribution!

What's the quickest way to change the Windows 8 interface to something less tablet-looking?

Other than switching to Windows 7, obviously =p

Fantastic price for a not to bad spec, good for anything internet, browsing based PC.

I guess this will have space internally for an upgrade.

HUKD

Out of curiosity anyone else bought a B grade PC from Medion before? Usually hear mixed reviews with a lot saying they seem brand new!

Processor is £90 alone though so can't really go wrong I don't think!

I would expect b grade from something portable not a desktop

How come? But AH well still can't complain with the price of it.

HEAT!

Great bit of kit for the price and you get Windows 8.1 with it!

HiRes:

I ordered a b grade medion pc that i posted here two weeks ago, It was supposed to fitted with a gtx 750 but came with a gt 720 graphics card. Customer services are poor IMO. Obviously if you never have a problem its not an issue. I will never buy a Medion product again.

Hmm bit of a shame, maybe a customer return where they stole a better graphics card and put a worse one in aha?

Looks a cracking deal to me. There's a MEDION Akoya P5348 DR PC (B-Grade) also but that has Intel® Core ™ i5-4440 quad-core processor, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX745 DirectX®11 graphics with 2048MB DDR5 graphics memory, DVI-I, HDMI and 8 GB DDR3 RAM but it's just shy of £300 but even at that, it seems a good price.

Yeah blas that does also sound like a cracking deal, just about finding a pc that matches people's specific budgets really :smiley:

Medion motherboards don't support upgrading so the gfx card would not boot up with the rest of the system.

Anyone know if a Sapphire HD 7770 would fit in this and/or whether it's even worth doing that (I have the HD7770 already), or better to bite the bullet and jump to the MEDION Akoya P5348 DR PC at £300?????

the 300 quid one seems ace, am I missing something? it'd be alright for 1080p gaming right? current games,medium settings?

How would you go about adding a SSD to one of these and installing windows 8.1 to it? Does this come with a physical windows disc?

I've only got about 300 quid disposable , so I'm not going to be able to smash out new games at Max, but wondering if thisisthe best bang for my buck.

I've been on the look out for a similar spec for weeks now at this price. I have been unable to find anything else that matches this in those 3 weeks .. Dont forget to sign up to their newsletter to get £10 off it, so £289!

Why don't you build your own PC

Thanks all :smiley:

I would, but not sure it would work out any more powerful / cheaper than this really.

It looks like a prop from Doctor Who

The processor is fantastic. I bought the cube deal for £230 and added a 750ti. This deal is brilliant and i would not hesitate to buy. Any doubters out there who are looking for a capable machine with upgrade potential should go for it.

Windows 8 has start menu "kind of" just right click. Grown to like metro but am probably the only one.

Jeez looking at the money they give you for your old PC...you'd get more from Creepy Cash Converters.
Better yet, you could just chuck it off a bridge and keep what dignity you have left...

Anyone know if this is 32bit or 64bit windows?

I am almost tempted to buy this to put in the garage to replace my old Advent which i use to source stuff i need for repairs etc

In my opionon the only upgrade you need to make this a very acceptable machine is a graphics card. Thats it, and maybe another 4gb of ram. cheap as chips.

64 bit

Sorry , battery is almost dead

Could probably sell for more if it came with Windows /7

Cheers del00

This is a great buy for the money. If you want to game go for the other £300 deal, graphics card in that will play any current game on medium easily. Or you could add a 750 to this for gaming without changing the psu.

The comment above about not being able to install any other graphics card doesn't sound legit. They would not be able to stop you from installing a compatible card and I've never heard a manufacturer ever doing that.

how longs warranty?

Nice one, ordered. My 9 year old Dell 5150 pc packed up a couple of weeks ago it was very sad :disappointed: Have been getting by with a laptop, but I miss the DVD RW drive and charging the battery was a pain all the time. Don't game so should suit me fine as long as it's reasonably quiet.

£5.68 cashback has already tracked aswell :smiley:

Only if you intend to game, otherwise no.

OOS! Nearly pulled the trigger too. :disappointed:

Looks like its sold out.
Interesting that it appears to be tomorrows deal, at £199.

Dam I missed it

Picked up the £300 refurbished one - can't find anything to touch it at that price, hopefully it'll be in good condition when it arrives, pretty nervous of buying "B grade" whatever that means.

COLD! I bought exact same design but AMD version with a ATI graphics card. And I bought that for £199 almost 2 years ago :/ and that was brand new.

Besides the AMD version is higher with 4Mb cache. This was from Aldi btw xD

Just a bit of advice when Aldi has these medion PCs, they tend to be very good value for money, most tend to have 6mb cache.

Let's all wait around till aldi have a Medion pc deal then.... Guess if people have been waiting since the last time they were selling them we won't have long to wait.......

Would this play lower spec Steam games, such as Broken Sword, Worms & Sim City 4?

Just had the girlfriends one delivered everything is brand new and she is chuffed.............

Just had mine delivered. Tried to activate windows but says it is being used on another PC! Tried contacting Medion Hotline Number 0333 3213106...not working! So emailed them. Not a very happy chappy! Anyone else had any problems.

same here absolutely brand new and I just installed SSD and it now goes like the clappers

the second unit would not auto activate
to activate do the following

left click folder symbol in taskbar
right click (This PC)
left click Properties
click to activate windows and you will receive the message about licence being used on another PC
select phone support
and activate over the phone works fine via the automated phone system

Big thanks to the OP for this, mine came today and looks new...

Here's where I make myself look a fool but was wondering if mine is missing something?! There's a large 'port' on the top that looks like something slides in and connects... hope this pic works

Port on top is for a special external hard drive I think

Hot swap for HDD. Need a connector to use if i remember

Ahahahaha I needed to ask that same question, cheers

I did a clean install of windows 8.1 from USB

Arrived today, does indeed look brand new and not 'refurbished'. As with others Windows didn't automatically activate and I had to ring up, but no big issue. Very happy and a very hot deal.

Clone the hdd to ssd using Easus Todo backup free. Then just remove the lead from the hdd and connect the ssd in its place. You can then use the original hdd as storage.. It will then boot from the ssd

I received mine this morning. I went for the £300 option one and the PC itself(mini tower) looks brand new. It's clearly a return though as the documentation itself looks a bit dog eared.

These are still for sale for £199 for a B grade on eBay and have been for the last 6 months, was hoping that they would price drop them since medion should be introducing newer spec PCs B grades soon to clear old stock. (I don't have any info if newer spec will be introduced but the 2049 is old in PC technology)